Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, July 9: Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura today conducted the first-ever Convalescent Plasma Therapy for COVID patients.
A statement issued today by the SKIMS said that off-late SKIMS started Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT) for critically sick patients as one of the modalities of supportive treatment of this deadly infection that has been approved by the Government of India as well as ICMR.
It is a medical procedure that the doctors are using to treat novel Coronavirus diseases across the globe.
“The Institutional Ethics Committee of SKIMS also approved the institution of this Treatment. The Government of Jammu and Kashmir has been apprised of the recent developments in Convalescent Plasma Therapy at SKIMS wherein three critically sick patients received Plasma Therapy on compassionate grounds,” a SKIMS PRO said.
It was informed that Dr. Sajad Bhat, a 3rd year PG resident from General Medicine who has recovered from the illness was the first one to donate the Plasma for this noble cause at SKIMS that was started in collaboration with Blood Transfusion & Immuno-Hematology Department.
SKIMS said that this mode of treatment is being enhanced and more and more of the manpower is being adjusted for this service, based on the clinical judgment and the status of the patients in need of such treatment.
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