Plasma Therapy removed as Covid-19 treatment in India

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has removedplasma therapy from the list of Covid-19 treatment among adult patients.

On Monday late night, ICMR issued its revised guidelineswhich states that for the Covid-19 patients' treatment, convalescent plasmatherapy has been removed even as an off-label treatment.

However, until now the treatment was allowed only if thefollowing criteria were met:
1. Early moderate disease (preferably with the seven days of developingsymptoms)
2. Availability of high titre plasma donor

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It may be noted here that the Covid-19 treatment protocolis prepared by AIIMS/ICMR- Covid-19 national task force/ joint monitoring groupunder the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Reiterating the fact, a few months after Covid-19 hitIndia, plasma was considered an effective treatment to cure the infectionamong patients. Even it was thought that it is helpful in preventing the casefrom ‘moderate’ to ‘severe.’

As the scientist dwelled profoundly to know about plasmatherapy it came to light that this therapy is neither effective to drop the numberCovid-19 patients  nor is containing the severityof the case.