City’s first Plasma therapy unit comes up at KS Hegde Hospital

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, August 24, 2020:    The first convalscent plasma therapy unit for Covid-19  in the city has come up at the Justice K S Hegde Charitable Hospital at Derlakatte.

 

The Hospital has a  full-fledged blood bank  with single donor platelet facility. The license for plasmapheresis at the facility has been issued by the Drugs Controller of India, informed Dr Shivakumar Hiremath, Medical Superintendent.

A press release from the hospital said  convalescent plasma from three donors was harvested and transfused to Covid patients on the first day of the functioning of the unit. The setting up of the unit has been a welcome development in the wake of increasing cases of Covid-19 and also the rising demand for plasma therapy. Even NGO Wellness Helpline had earlier appealed to the administration to set up a plasma unit in the district.