New Delhi: Punjab Govt has received the nod from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to undertake clinical trials for convalescent Plasma Therapy on COVID-19 patients.
Technically called "convalescent-plasma therapy", the treatment aims at using the immune power gained by a recovered person to treat a sick person. As part of the therapy, antibodies from a recovered patient are harvested and ingested into a sick person to help the latter's immune system mount a fight against the pathogen.
It may be recalled that Captain Amarinder had allowed the use of this therapy when ACP Kohli inflicted with coronavirus and admitted in SPS Hospital Ludhiana. The state govt had provided all support and former Director PGIMER, Chandigarh Prof. Dr K.K. Talwar, had organised the requisite professional guidance but ACP Kohli's condition deteriorated before the therapy could be tried out. The matter was, however, pursued and a formal proposal sent to ICMR for formal approval.
