India is on the hunt for plasma to beat Covid-19

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India, the world's biggest suppliers of generic drugs, is scrambling to end a local shortage of remdesivir and tocilizumab

India, the world’s biggest suppliers of generic drugs, is scrambling to end a local shortage of remdesivir and tocilizumabA doctor collects blood sample from a woman during a screening for plasma blood donation by people recovered from the COVID-19 coronavirus at a school in Dharavi, in Mumbai on July 23, 2020.

It is also offering to cover travel and other expenses for donors from outside the state, and has been making its front-line workers scour the state — sometimes wading through flood waters — to bring willing participants to plasma donation centres. “When we learnt that a person was willing to donate, people went to his house by boat, brought him to the hospital and got the donation done.”Plasma from a previously infected person can be used to treat up to two moderately ill patients, Sarma said. Without timely treatment, such patients’ condition can potentially worsen, further straining the limited pool for medicines.

 

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