JAIPUR:
Bikaner
and Ajmer medical colleges have written to the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) seeking permission to conduct plasma therapy on needy Covid patients.
Medical colleges in Jaipur,
Kota
,
Jodhpur
and Udaipur have already got DCGI’s permission for plasma therapy. Health department expects that by April 15 all the medical colleges at divisional headquarters will be carrying out plasma therapy.
Health minister Raghu Sharma said treating serious Covid patients with plasma therapy, which started at Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur, has been 100% successful as all the 47 patients have recovered. However, permission has been sought from DCGI to start treatment with plasma therapy in other medical colleges.
The government has completed micro level planning to start plasma therapy at hospitals in each district headquarters. Plasma therapy will only take off only when more and more people who recover from Covid donate their plasma for other patients.
A plasma bank has already been set up at SMS Hospital. Similar plasma banks will come up in other medical colleges of the state.
The state government may rope in NGOs to help it in encouraging people who have recovered from Covid and eligible for plasma donation. According to the medical experts, any person aged between 18 and 60 years who was tested corona positive through RT-PCR test and turned negative after treatment of 14 days can donate plasma.
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