Govt to Make Blood Donations Compulsory for All Recovered Coronavirus Patients

[Zibago]

Govt to Make Blood Donations Compulsory for All Recovered Coronavirus Patients
Posted 4 hours ago by Haroon Hayder

Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has reportedly approved the use of passive immunization technique to treat COVID-19 patients in the country.

Dr. Tahir Shamsi, head of the National Institute of Blood Diseases (NIBD) Karachi, has actively advocated for employing passive immunization technique to treat Coronavirus patients since the first case of the disease was reported in Pakistan.

The federal government is expected to announce the decision tomorrow.

Initially, COVID-19 patients will be treated at NIBD Karachi, LUMHS Jamshoro, and LUMS Medical University Lahore.

Moreover, the government has devised a protocol with consultation from the National Bioethics Committee (NBC) for treating COVID-19 patients using passive immunization.

Under the NBC sanctioned protocol, patients, who make a complete recovery from COVID-19, will be bound to donate their blood to treat other patients.

DRAP officials have also recommended the federal government to provide them a list of nearly 570 patients who have completely recovered from Coronavirus. This way, doctors from the designated centers would collect their blood and start using passive immunization techniques.

Ventilators and Chloroquine
Besides passive immunization technique, DRAP has approved the local production of ventilators after a comprehensive technical evaluation.

DRAP has also approved the manufacturing of the ingredients used to make chloroquine in Pakistan. Successful clinical trials at DRAP have found chloroquine to be effective against COVID-19.

While chloroquine will be manufactured in Pakistan after nearly a decade, ventilators will be manufactured in the country for the first time.
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[PakSword]

Lolll

 

[W.11]

hahaha

 

[CrazyZ]

Need their plasma. Anti-bodies can help those that are more sick.

 

[Zibago]

Lolll

Nothing in life is free

 

[Amazon]

Under the NBC sanctioned protocol, patients, who make a complete recovery from COVID-19, will be bound to donate their blood to treat other patients.

Why taking blood from the patients who recovered from COVID ? Hundred of thousands of other people can donate blood if required.

 

[Syed1.]

Why taking blood from the patients who recovered from COVID ? Hundred of thousands of other people can donate blood if required.

Hundreds of thousands of people do not possess the corona fighting anti-bodies that a corona recovered patient has.

 

[Amazon]

Hundreds of thousands of people do not possess the corona fighting anti-bodies that a corona recovered patient has.

Thanks for the explanation. I did not thought that way.

 

[Zibago]

Why taking blood from the patients who recovered from COVID ? Hundred of thousands of other people can donate blood if required.

Plasma treatment requires blood from patients who recovered from COVID19

 

[PakSword]

Nothing in life is free

That's what I mentioned in your earlier thread. I know people are hesitating

 

[Zibago]

That's what I mentioned in your earlier thread. I know people are hesitating

Call it whatever but this has a higher chance of working

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

I do wonder why Western Countries had not implemented it earlier

DRAP has approved the local production of ventilators after a comprehensive technical evaluation.

@AsianUnion

 

[abrar khan]

The world is at trial stage though its late, testing antibodies in plasma of recovered COVD19 patients if it can work in other patient having virus. As it works in mostly viral infection but in some cases it does not respond.

 

[Dark-Destroyer]

Why taking blood from the patients who recovered from COVID ? Hundred of thousands of other people can donate blood if required.

Because their blood plasma can help others struggling and battling it and until a vaccine isnt created