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The first patient who was administered plasma therapy in Max Hospital in Delhi's Saket showed "positive" results and was weaned off ventilator support, Max Healthcare said in a statement today. The patient who had tested positive for COVID-19 on April 4 was put on ventilator support on April 8. The hospital said he was admitted with moderate symptoms and a history of fever and respiratory issues. He later developed pneumonia with Type I respiratory failure, the hospital said in its statement.
"The first patient who was administered Plasma Therapy on compassionate grounds at Max Hospital, Saket has shown positive results & was recently weaned off ventilator support. The patient is a 49-year-old, male from Delhi who had tested COVID positive on April 4th," Max Healthcare was quoted in a statement by news agency ANI.
"Patient was admitted to the hospital with moderate symptoms and a history of fever and respiratory issues, the same day. His condition deteriorated during next few days, he developed pneumonia with Type I respiratory failure and had to be put on ventilator support on April 8," the statement further read.
The convalescent plasma therapy aims at using immune power gained by a recovered person to treat a sick person. It uses antibodies from the blood of cured patients to treat severely-ill COVID-19 patients. This has to be a voluntary donation from the patients who have recovered from the disease.
