{"id":63959,"date":"2020-04-11T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63959"},"modified":"2020-04-10T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:43:07","slug":"govt-approves-clinical-trials-covid-19-plasma-therapy-locally-made-ventilators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-approves-clinical-trials-covid-19-plasma-therapy-locally-made-ventilators.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt approves trials for local ventilators, plasma therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The government has approved clinical trials for plasma therapy and locally made ventilators in an attempt to tackle the country&#8217;s ongoing Covid-19 pandemic situation, according to a news source. It has also granted permission to local industries to manufacture sanitisers and produce Chloroquine, the anti-malarial medicine which has shown some efficacy in safeguarding recipients against the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/covid-19-govt-releases-guidelines-on-using-protective-gear.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"COVID-19: Govt releases guidelines on using protective gear (opens in a new tab)\">COVID-19: Govt releases guidelines on using protective gear<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) held back-to-back meetings with expert committees to evaluate pending applications regarding the manufacture of items like mechanical ventilators and hand sanitisers, along with drug production. DRAP enlisted over 50 manufacturers to produce hand sanitisers, so that they could be made freely available to the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/science-ministry-awaits-draps-approval-ventilator-designs-coronavirus-testing-kits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Science ministry awaits DRAP\u2019s approval on ventilator designs, coronavirus testing kits (opens in a new tab)\">Science ministry awaits DRAP\u2019s approval on ventilator designs, coronavirus testing kits<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DRAP\u2019s Clinical Study Committee (CSC) permitted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/efforts-mass-produce-ventilators-locally.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"clinical trials (opens in a new tab)\">clinical trials<\/a> of Covid-19 patients\u2019 plasma as a passive immunisation method during the pandemic. Professor Dr Tahir Shamsi, principal investigator and chairman of the National Institute of Blood Diseases and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Karachi, submitted the relevant application for these trials. This study will involve injecting moderate and severe Covid-19 patients with convalescent plasma for passive immunisation, and to prevent them from having to go on ventilators.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CSC also approved testing basic ventilators designed by\nthe Pakistan Engineering Council. This is expected to help meet domestic\nrequirements.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The government has approved clinical trials for plasma therapy and locally made ventilators in an attempt to tackle the country&#8217;s ongoing Covid-19 pandemic situation, according to a news source. It has also granted permission to local industries to manufacture sanitisers and produce Chloroquine, the anti-malarial medicine which has shown some efficacy in safeguarding recipients against the virus. Read: COVID-19: Govt releases guidelines on using protective gear The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) held back-to-back meetings with expert committees to evaluate pending applications regarding the manufacture of items like mechanical ventilators and hand sanitisers, along with drug production. DRAP enlisted over 50 manufacturers to produce hand sanitisers, so that they could be made freely available to the public. Read: Science ministry awaits DRAP\u2019s approval on ventilator designs, coronavirus testing kits DRAP\u2019s Clinical Study Committee (CSC) permitted clinical trials of Covid-19 patients\u2019 plasma as a passive immunisation method during the pandemic. Professor Dr Tahir Shamsi, principal investigator and chairman of the National Institute of Blood Diseases and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Karachi, submitted the relevant application for these trials. This study will involve injecting moderate and severe Covid-19 patients with convalescent plasma for passive immunisation, and to prevent them from having&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":63408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[26002,23940,24604,26003],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-clinical-trials","8":"tag-covid-19","9":"tag-local-models-for-ventilators-ready","10":"tag-plasma-therapy"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Clinical trials for plasma therapy, local ventilators approved- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The government has approved clinical trials for plasma therapy and locally made ventilators, among other products, to fight Covid-19.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-approves-clinical-trials-covid-19-plasma-therapy-locally-made-ventilators.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Clinical trials for plasma therapy, local ventilators approved- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government has approved clinical trials for plasma therapy and locally made ventilators, among other products, to fight Covid-19.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-approves-clinical-trials-covid-19-plasma-therapy-locally-made-ventilators.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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