Cases of corona are surging in Kerala. In a trial that is supposed to serve the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala, the state government has been conducting plasma therapy on 25 patients at the District Hospital of Mananthavady in Wayanad. Seventy-five people from Valat village in the district have donated plasma till now. Each of the 25 patients have received two doses as a result, while undergoing treatment for the disease at the hospital.

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Valat had been a COVID-19 cluster in July after a wedding function turned out to be a source of infection for many. More than 300 cases have emerged from the village of Valat since July. The plasma donors are people who recovered from the disease in the region. Dr Binija Merin Joy, nodal officer of the hospital blood bank told a leading daily, “It has been applied on people who have moderate symptoms and only on patients who satisfy certain medical conditions including oxygen saturation and based on certain lab results, following all guidelines of the government. Plasma therapy has been used in the treatment since July 22 and some of the patients were discharged from the hospital after showing some recovery."

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Oxygen saturation is a measure of the amount of oxygen-carrying hemoglobin present in the blood, relative to the amount of hemoglobin not carrying oxygen. A certain level of oxygen needs to be there in the blood, for the body to function efficiently. Plasma therapy relates to using the blood plasma of individuals who have recovered from the disease, who will have antibodies to the virus in their blood.

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