{"id":18862,"date":"2020-08-05T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=18862"},"modified":"2020-08-07T07:18:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T07:18:16","slug":"plasma-therapy-cures-critically-ill-covid-19-patient-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/plasma-therapy-cures-critically-ill-covid-19-patient-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Plasma therapy cures critically ill COVID-19 patient in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kathmandu (Xinhua) — A 60-year-old patient of COVID-19 has recovered from the critical stage of the disease after being treated with the plasma therapy, the first time in the Himalayan country, a doctor involved in the treatment said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The patient who was in serious danger before was treated with plasma therapy, is now close to full recovery,” Santa Kumar Das told Xinhua on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Das, also the coordinator of a COVID-19 management committee at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu where the patient was treated, said they were awaiting the report of the patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doctors treated the patient on July 30 with the plasma therapy after taking blood from a man with an estimated age of 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Before we treated him with this method, the patient required 80-90 percent external oxygen,” said Das. “When we checked the health condition of the patient 48 hours after the plasma therapy was performed, we found that he required only 24-28 percent external oxygen.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that his hospital has taken it as a successful case with a patient recovering well and is ready to go home if he is tested negative for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plasma therapy is not a universally accepted method of treating COVID-19 patients. This therapy is being used as a test case in many countries. According to Das, 12 hospitals have been appointed where the plasma therapy can be performed to treat COVID-19 patients in Nepal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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