First COVID-19 patient in India to be administered the Convalescent Plasma Therapy has recovered and was discharged on Sunday.
New Delhi| The patient who was first administered convalescent plasma therapy in Delhi has now fully recovered and was discharged on Sunday. The patient had been removed off ventilator support seven days ago at the Max Hospital in Saket.
The 49-year-old male patient from Delhi had tested positive for the novel coronavirus on April 4.
With mild symptoms and a history of respiratory issues, he was admitted to the East Wing of the Max Hospital which is a COVID-19 facility, the same day. His health worsened during the next few days and he soon required external oxygen to maintain saturation.
Following it, he developed pneumonia with Type I respiratory failure and had to be put on ventilator support on April 8.
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When the patient showed no change in his condition, his family requested the hospital for administration of plasma therapy on compassionate grounds, a first of its kind treatment modality that was used for this disease in India.
An individual donor can donate 400ml of plasma which can save 2 lives, as 200ml is sufficient to treat one patient, as per doctors.
According to John Hopkins University, plasma therapy has been used since the 1980s to combat diseases as wide-ranging as measles, Ebola, H1N1 flu and polio.
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