Treating Covid-19 thru plasma still on experimental stage.

ISLAMABAD -- The Federal Ministry of Health has issued necessary guidelines regardAing the use of plasma therapy for the treatment of Covid-19 patients.

According to the guidelines, reAsearch is being made all over the world for the treatment of Corona, but so far no effective drug has come to the light.

Given the seriousness of the situation, experts have called for testing plasma therapy, which has been used for many years to treat various diseases.

The FDA has listed plasma therapy as only an experimental treatment. Its experiments are going on around the world on Corona patients and the reAsults are being reviewed.

According to the guidelines of the Ministry of Health, in the light of the research available so far, plasma therAapy could not be considered as a treatAment for corona.

The public is informed that plasma therapy cannot be performed anyAwhere in the country without the perAmission of the government as it is very important to follow the relevant rules and regulations of medicine for this purpose.

The Ministry has directed all the concerned agencies to ensure that plasma therapy can be tested on any patient only under the supervision of specialists in an approved hospital and for this purpose the relevant reAsearch regulatory authority will issue a permit.

Those recovered from Corona over the last two weeks had met all the relAevant rules and regulations of the Safe Blood Program and the Provincial Safe Blood Transfusion Authorities would be eligible to donate plasma.

It is important to keep in mind that plasma can only be donated to Corona patients and is not allowed to be sold or bought. The final consent of the...

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