Seva Saptah: MLA Bharath Shetty donates plasma

Mangaluru: On a day that BJP workers organised a blood donation camp to mark the 70th birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,

Mangaluru

City North MLA Y

Bharath Shetty

went a step ahead. Dr Shetty, who was the first MLA in the state to contract the novel coronavirus, donated

plasma

to become first

Covid-19

infected MLA from this region to do so. Congress Kunigal MLA H D Ranganath donated plasma along with his brother on August 20.

The plasma donation comes at a time when the BJP is in the midst of ‘

Seva Saptah

’ that the national and state units of the party are organising from September 14, to mark the birthday of PM Modi. Dr Shetty told TOI that he had his blood tested at a private medical college lab in the city on Wednesday, and the doctors had cleared him to donate plasma. “The benefits of plasma therapy for people afflicted with Covid-19 are hard to ignore,” he said.

The process that lasted around 45 minutes at Justice KS Hegde Charitable Hospital, Deralakatte, will help treat two Covid-19 patients. Shetty said he will volunteer to donate plasma again after 15 days if needed, subject to approval from doctors based on the antibody count then. Hitherto, plasma donors had to go to Bengaluru to donate plasma, which they can now do at the blood bank of the hospital, he added.


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