Two recovered COVID-19 patients donate plasma in Lucknow

Two recovered coronavirus patients at the King George's Medical University in Lucknow have donated their plasma to treat severally-ill cases of COVID-19.

Faizan and Javed donated their plasma late on Monday night after 'iftaar'. Faizan's plasma is AB positive while that of Javed is A positive, Dr Tulika Chandra, Head of Department of Transfusion Medicine, KGMU told PTI.

With this, five corona warriors have so far donated their plasma to the KGMU.

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The three other donors include KGMU's resident doctor Tauseef Khan, a woman doctor from Canada and another patient, who recovered from the disease.

On April 27, a 58-year-old doctor from Orai in Jalaun district became the first recipient of plasma therapy and the donor was the woman doctor from Canada, the first COVID-19 patient admitted to KGMU.

However, the doctor from Orai died on May 9 following a heart attack. Convalescent Plasma Therapy is an experimental procedure for treating COVID-19 patients.

In this treatment, plasma, a blood component, from a cured patient is transfused to a critically ill coronavirus patient.

The blood of a person who has recovered from COVID-19 develops antibodies to fight the virus.

This therapy uses the antibodies from the blood of a cured patient to treat another critical patient.