New Delhi: Plasma therapy has been excluded from the list of treatment for corona. This decision has been taken on the recommendation of the Government Task Force. According to reports, plasma therapy has been removed from the Covid treatment protocol. The central government has removed plasma therapy from the COVID treatment protocol. A few days ago this was discussed in the National Taskforce meeting on Covid. It was said that plasma therapy does not benefit. The Joint Monitoring Group of the Health Ministry has released Revised Clinic Guidelines for the management of Covid 19 patients. Plasma therapy is not mentioned in this revised guideline. Whereas earlier protocols included this. Doctors are currently using plasma therapy to treat severe corona patients.
Indeed, plasma therapy has not been found to be effective in COVID-19 patients in reducing the likelihood of coronavirus disease severity or death, and has been shown to be effective in therapeutic management guidelines on COVID-19. The possibility of being removed was already being expressed. In the meeting of the National Task Force of ICMR of Covid-19, all the members were in favor that the use of plasma therapy should be removed from the medical guidelines for treatment of adult patients of Covid-19.
It has not been found to be effective and in many cases has been used improperly. The ICMR has finally issued a consultation for this. Before removing the plasma therapy from the protocol, some doctors and scientists, Principal Scientific Advisor K.K. A letter to Vijayaraghavan was warned about the irrational and non-scientific use of plasma method for the treatment of Covid-19 in the country.
