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Maharastra to continue plasma therapy despite death of first patient

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MUMBAI: Maharastra will continue providing covid-19 infected patients convalescent plasma therapy even as the first patient who was given this treatment died.

The state is readying Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)-run Kasturba Hospital as a specialised plasma therapy centre, a top BMC official told Mint.

On 29 April, a 53-year old male patient, the first to undergo plasma therapy in Maharashtra had died in Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital. “We have already got the approval for Kasturba Hospital to start plasma transfusion, but private hospitals are in the process of applying for the trial, and as and when they receive the approval from ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research), we will supply them plasma from our bank," Daksha Shah,

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