COVID-19: DMCH Begins Collecting Plasma

The Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) collected plasma from a doctor who recovered from COVID-19 recently, for the first time in the hospital on Saturday morning to explore the convalescent plasma therapy options to treat patients.

The medical college's Transition Medicine Department is supervising the whole process.

Earlier, plasma therapy was used for the first time for a patient admitted at the Ever Care Hospital in Dhaka on May 6.  DMCH's Dr Joardar Rakin Manzoor was the first to donate plasma.

The government on April 17 formed the national technical subcommittee for the plasma treatment under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

On April 28, the blood transfusion department at the DMCH decided to explore the convalescent plasma therapy option to treat Covid-19 patients and was directed by DGHS to supervise other hospitals across the country in this regard.

The DMCH authorities have urged all recovered patients to donate plasma so that it can be used for the treatment and recovery of critical patients.