Sumedha Sharma
Tribune News Service
Gurugram, July 15
The district lacks a mechanism to arrange plasma for Covid patients. With recovered patients unwilling to donate plasma, a majority of the patients try to arrange it through social media or agents. To add to their problems, hospitals which have the plasma demand a donor in return.
With demand outstripping the supply, plasma is being sold at a whopping rate. In the National Capital Region (NCR), the rate of one unit of plasma for a patient with A-negative blood group is Rs 60,000.
Rakshita Banerjee, daughter of a critical Covid patient under treatment at a private hospital here, said: “The hospital asked me to find plasma for my father’s treatment. I managed to find one in a Delhi hospital, but it asked for a plasma donor. I contacted an agent, who took Rs 20,000 to arrange a donor.”
According to doctors, the reluctance of recovered Covid patients to donate plasma has led to the crisis.
As per a government estimate, not even two per cent of recovered patients in the city have donated plasma despite being urged to do so.
Recovered patients say they are scared of re-contracting the virus. A group of families of Covid patients has written to Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, requesting him make to make it mandatory for recovered patients to donate plasma.
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