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A startup is matching covid-19 patients with plasma donors

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paise aap transfer kar do, hum kal aayenge (transfer the money and we will come tomorrow).’ And I couldn’t really blame them, everybody’s hard up these days," says Mal.The donor they homed in on proved to be ineligible—she was pregnant.

They had to start the entire process all over again. By the time they traced a donor four days later, the hospital too had found one.

Mal’s father-in-law got the plasma transfusion, and when this was combined with two rounds of the antiviral Tocilizumab over two days, his health began to improve.

A few days later, he was back home and had tested negative for SARS-CoV-2.Around the same time, Mal’s childhood friend Mukul Pahwa’s uncle too tested positive for covid-19 in Delhi.

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