“There is no proposal under consideration of Ministry of Health to set up plasma banks for providing COVID-19 therapy,” says Ashwini Choubey
Convalescent plasma therapy has not been recommended by the Ministry of Health as a mainstay of COVID-19 therapy and there is no proposal under consideration to set up plasma banks, the Rajya Sabha was informed.
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In a written reply, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey said States have taken initiative to establish such banks to provide plasma therapy to COVID-19 patients but no central database of such banks is maintained.
He was responding to a question on the total number of plasma banks running at present to provide plasma therapy to the Corona/COVID-19 patients in the country State-wise and if the government proposes to set up more plasma banks to cope with disease in the country.
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