New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi, who recovered from COVID-19 recently donated blood plasma at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) in Delhi's Vasant Kunj on Saturday.
Atishi who tested positive for COVID-19 last month had recently recovered.
AAP MLA Atishi donates plasma, urges other recovered patients to do it While speaking to ETV Bharat after donating blood plasma, Kalkaji MLA Atishi said that she wants to encourage recovered coronavirus patients to come and donate their blood plasma, hence she donated plasma today here. In life, you have very few opportunities to save lives and people should come to donate their blood plasma to save other's lives.
Earlier in the day, Atishi took to Twitter to inform that she was now eligible to donate plasma.
"Until we have a vaccine, we have to combat COVID-19 in this way. So, I want to appeal to all recovered patients to come and donate their blood plasma in ILBS to save other's lives," she said.
"Donated plasma at the ILBS Plasma Bank today! Would like to urge all recovered COVID patients to come forward and donate their plasma. It is very rare that one gets an opportunity to save someone's life, and plasma can do just that!," Atishi tweeted.
Kejriwal praised her decision, and shared her tweet with a comment, "V good Atishi!".
AAP spokesperson Akshay Marathe also donated plasma and Health Minister Satyendar Jain too had expressed his desire on Twitter, to donate plasma.
India's first 'plasma bank', the Delhi Plasma Bank which was established at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) here in collaboration with the Delhi government became operational on July 5.
Patients who have recently recovered from COVID-19 are eligible to donate plasma.
According to medical experts, bodies of people who recover from Coronavirus produce an anti-body/plasma in the blood to help the person fight against Coronavirus. If a little bit of this anti-body/plasma is given to a critical patient then the plasma helps in the latter person's recovery.
People in the age group of 18 to 60 years, who have fully recovered from COVID-19 and have showed no symptoms for 14 days can go for donation, subject to strict guidelines for eligible donors.
Someone weighing less than 50 kg, women who have ever been pregnant, cancer survivors, and those with kidney, heart, lung or liver diseases, are not eligible to donate plasma.
(WITH INPUTS FROM ANI)
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