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Gurgaon: Since its inauguration on July 30, the district’s plasma bank has seen only 75 patients come forward to donate blood after recovering from Covid-19, health officials said.
That is only 0.6 percent of the 11,243 patients who have already recovered from the illness in Gurugram so far.
The numbers, however, have started to pick up.
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Gurgaon: Since its inauguration on July 30, the district’s plasma bank has seen only 75 patients come forward to donate blood after recovering from Covid-19, health officials said.
That is only 0.6 percent of the 11,243 patients who have already recovered from the illness in Gurugram so far.
The numbers, however, have started to pick up.
With the number of reported infections in the district steadily rising — at a growth rate of about two percent, and clocking well over 200 new positives each day — the district health department over the weekend made an appeal to those who have recovered, to come forward and donate antibody-rich plasma, which be administered to moderate patients opting for plasma therapy, as a mode of treatment.
Officials, however, said that over the past week the number of donors consenting to donate plasma has increased.
By August 30, a month after opening, the bank had taken plasma samples from about 40 donors.
The remaining 35 donors have come forward in the past week itself.
“We are getting four to five new donors each day now, but it has taken a lot of effort.