Plasma Donor

The Delhi Police, in an attempt to help families of Covid patients find convalescent plasma easily, is now preparing an extensive data bank of willing donors and connecting them with patients.

The Gautam Buddh Nagar administration launched a "Coffee with Collector" initiative on Thursday to express gratitude to plasma donors and encourage more people to become donors to help COVID-19 patients defeat the disease.

"An Infection doesn't always has to be a suffering, you can always transform it into an opportunity to help the fellow beings," said Naga Babu's post

The UK's state-funded National Health Service (NHS) on Friday issued an urgent call for people of Indian and South Asian heritage who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate their plasma to help save lives of others infected with the deadly virus.

Mumbai's Dharavi, once a COVID-19 hotspot, soon tackled coronavirus effectively and has it under control - for now. The sprawling slum has now taken the lead in plasma donation as well to fight the pandemic. A primary screening was organized in the densely populated slum for an upcoming plasma donation camp in the area where 25 per cent of recovere...

Going beyond call of duty, a 27-year-old police constable, who recently recovered from COVID-19, came to the help of a senior citizen in Noida who needed blood plasma for her coronavirus treatment, according to officials.

Perhaps in the first such instance of the crime during the current COVID-19 times, a 25 -year-old man was on Monday arrested here for allegedly cheating over 200 people by promising to donate plasma for Coronavirus patients and arranging drugs, police said.

The Assam government has decided to go full throttle in pushing blood plasma donation by introducing moves like "state-guest facility" to encourage donors from other states and "letter of recommendation" to encourage donors within the state to battle coronavirus.

An incentive of Rs 5,000 will be given as a "gesture of gratitude" to those coronavirus survivors who donate their plasma, the Karnataka government has said, adding that system is meant to encourage survivors to help save lives of those still battling COVID-19.

Plasma therapy trials on COVID-19 patients have been languishing in West Bengal for want of donors. There are now over 25,000 cases in the state, and 17,000 have recovered, but barely 15 COVID-19 survivors have come forward to donate plasma.

With coronavirus patients in need of plasma outnumbering donors, the Delhi government has ordered that from now onwards if a COVID-19 patient at any hospital needs plasma from the plasma bank it will have to first arrange for a replacement donor. The onus to find a replacement donor will rest entirely upon the nodal officer of that hospital. The de...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday appealed to hospitals to counsel their COVID-19 patients to donate plasma after 14 days of recovery from the disease, noting that the number of donors is yet to pick pace.

The first female plasma donor in the national capital said more women should donate their "antibody-rich" plasma and contribute towards the fight against coronavirus pandemic.

A doctor who recovered from coronavirus became the first person in Assam to donate his plasma at the Guwahati Medical College today as the plasma bank there became operational.

Resident doctors of AIIMS with the help of IIT-Delhi students have developed a mobile application to track real-time COVID-19 patients in the hospital, who can become potential plasma donors 28 days after recovery along with those who have been discharged.

The Delhi Police, in an attempt to help families of Covid patients find convalescent plasma easily, is now preparing an extensive data bank of willing donors and connecting them with patients.

The Gautam Buddh Nagar administration launched a "Coffee with Collector" initiative on Thursday to express gratitude to plasma donors and encourage more people to become donors to help COVID-19 patients defeat the disease.

"An Infection doesn't always has to be a suffering, you can always transform it into an opportunity to help the fellow beings," said Naga Babu's post

The UK's state-funded National Health Service (NHS) on Friday issued an urgent call for people of Indian and South Asian heritage who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate their plasma to help save lives of others infected with the deadly virus.

Mumbai's Dharavi, once a COVID-19 hotspot, soon tackled coronavirus effectively and has it under control - for now. The sprawling slum has now taken the lead in plasma donation as well to fight the pandemic. A primary screening was organized in the densely populated slum for an upcoming plasma donation camp in the area where 25 per cent of recovere...

Going beyond call of duty, a 27-year-old police constable, who recently recovered from COVID-19, came to the help of a senior citizen in Noida who needed blood plasma for her coronavirus treatment, according to officials.

Perhaps in the first such instance of the crime during the current COVID-19 times, a 25 -year-old man was on Monday arrested here for allegedly cheating over 200 people by promising to donate plasma for Coronavirus patients and arranging drugs, police said.

The Assam government has decided to go full throttle in pushing blood plasma donation by introducing moves like "state-guest facility" to encourage donors from other states and "letter of recommendation" to encourage donors within the state to battle coronavirus.

An incentive of Rs 5,000 will be given as a "gesture of gratitude" to those coronavirus survivors who donate their plasma, the Karnataka government has said, adding that system is meant to encourage survivors to help save lives of those still battling COVID-19.

Plasma therapy trials on COVID-19 patients have been languishing in West Bengal for want of donors. There are now over 25,000 cases in the state, and 17,000 have recovered, but barely 15 COVID-19 survivors have come forward to donate plasma.

With coronavirus patients in need of plasma outnumbering donors, the Delhi government has ordered that from now onwards if a COVID-19 patient at any hospital needs plasma from the plasma bank it will have to first arrange for a replacement donor. The onus to find a replacement donor will rest entirely upon the nodal officer of that hospital. The de...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday appealed to hospitals to counsel their COVID-19 patients to donate plasma after 14 days of recovery from the disease, noting that the number of donors is yet to pick pace.

The first female plasma donor in the national capital said more women should donate their "antibody-rich" plasma and contribute towards the fight against coronavirus pandemic.

A doctor who recovered from coronavirus became the first person in Assam to donate his plasma at the Guwahati Medical College today as the plasma bank there became operational.

Resident doctors of AIIMS with the help of IIT-Delhi students have developed a mobile application to track real-time COVID-19 patients in the hospital, who can become potential plasma donors 28 days after recovery along with those who have been discharged.