HMC starts blood plasma infusion to treat COVID-19 patients.

PESHAWAR -- Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC), a public sector hospital in Khyber Pakhtunwa has become first ever hospital in the province which has started treatment of COVID-19 patients with infusion of blood plasma of survivors of the infectious disease.

HMC has formally signed an accord with National Institute of Blood Disease Karachi for getting donation of plasma from COVID-19 recovered patients and use it as treatment for other affected patients, said Medical Director HMC Dr Shahzad Akbar.

The KP Government has constituted a committee headed by In-charge Hematology Department of HMC Professor Shah Taj Khan that would ensure arrangements for plasma process at laboratory and its availability and other facilities.

He said doctors have found tentative evidence that seriously ill coronavirus patients can benefit from infusions of blood plasma collected from people who have recovered from the disease, adding that a team of experts is currently looking into various options of treatment of COVID-19 under supervision of...