Karachi:Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority (SBTA) in collaboration with Sindh Health Department has established Plasma Collection Point at Shaheed Benazirabad and started collection of plasma for COVID-19 patients.
Director, Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority (SBTA), Dr Dur-e-Naz Jamal, while talking to PPI, informed that plasma collection has been started at Regional Blood Transfusion Centre, Shaheed Benazirabad and plasma donation to coronavirus infected patients will begin soon.
She informed that plasma collection and donation are being performed in Karachi and Hyderabad earlier while with the approval of Sindh Health Department and Drug Regularity Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) this procedure has introduced in Shaheed Benazirabad for COVID-19 patients.
She further informed that a total 139 Coronavirus recovered patients had donated plasma to COVID-19 infected patients out of which 110 were completely recovered from infection disease while 29 died. She explained that 29 people was not died of plasma procedure but due to other complications. She said plasma donation is very low in Sindh due to myths and there is urgent need of mass public awareness to increase plasma donation.