{"id":65326,"date":"2020-05-11T15:31:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T10:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=65326"},"modified":"2020-05-11T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T10:31:52","slug":"first-covid-19-patient-recovers-with-plasma-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/first-covid-19-patient-recovers-with-plasma-therapy.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s first COVID-19 patient recovers with plasma therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: Renowned Pakistani haematologist and head of the National Institute of Blood Diseases, Dr Tahir Shamsi on Saturday reported on a successful clinical trial of passive immunisation after the country&#8217;s first COVID-19 patient made a recovery through plasma therapy, according to news sources. He further confirmed that the patient had been discharged from hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pso-faisalabad-industrialists-donate-coronavirus-relief-fund.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Faisalabad industrialists, PSO make donations to COVID-19 relief fund<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He revealed that several patients suffering from coronavirus are currently being treated with plasma therapy. He said that the authorities concerned had identified 350 patients for clinical trial of plasma therapy treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-finalise-cash-flow-support-plan-msmes-end-may.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Govt to finalise cash flow support plan for MSMEs by end of May<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eight approved clinical trial facilities for convalescent plasma across Pakistan have initiated the process of collecting plasma of recovered patients. Dr Shamsi clarified that this development could not be declared as an approved coronavirus treatment, since it functions as a successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-approves-clinical-trials-covid-19-plasma-therapy-locally-made-ventilators.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clinical trial <\/a>at this stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Dr Shamsi; passive immunisation therapy has been used to cure patients of diseases like Ebola, SARS, and influenza in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Renowned Pakistani haematologist and head of the National Institute of Blood Diseases, Dr Tahir Shamsi on Saturday reported on a successful clinical trial of passive immunisation after the country&#8217;s first COVID-19 patient made a recovery through plasma therapy, according to news sources. He further confirmed that the patient had been discharged from hospital. Read: Faisalabad industrialists, PSO make donations to COVID-19 relief fund He revealed that several patients suffering from coronavirus are currently being treated with plasma therapy. He said that the authorities concerned had identified 350 patients for clinical trial of plasma therapy treatment. Read: Govt to finalise cash flow support plan for MSMEs by end of May The eight approved clinical trial facilities for convalescent plasma across Pakistan have initiated the process of collecting plasma of recovered patients. Dr Shamsi clarified that this development could not be declared as an approved coronavirus treatment, since it functions as a successful clinical trial at this stage. According to Dr Shamsi; passive immunisation therapy has been used to cure patients of diseases like Ebola, SARS, and influenza in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":63403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28792,26003],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-national-institute-of-blood-diseases","8":"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>First COVID-19 patient recovers with plasma therapy - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Haematologist and head of the National Institute of Blood Diseases, Dr Tahir Shamsi reported on a successful clinical trial of passive immunisation\" \/>\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\/first-covid-19-patient-recovers-with-plasma-therapy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First COVID-19 patient recovers with plasma therapy - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Haematologist and head of the National Institute of Blood Diseases, Dr Tahir Shamsi reported on a successful clinical trial of passive immunisation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/first-covid-19-patient-recovers-with-plasma-therapy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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