The convalescent plasma immunisation has saved 92 per cent critical Covid-19 patients from being put on ventilators and 80 per cent others have shown prompt recovery after 48 hours, according to a report regarding the usefulness of plasma for coronavirus patients during the ongoing pandemic in the country.

It said that that the patients would have gone to ventilator as they were unresponsive to every supportive treatment. They were unable to maintain their oxygen saturation in their blood despite every treatment, it added.

The report has recommended that convalescent plasma (CP) should be given to moderate and severe patients. Patients receiving CP within first five days of admission showed good results than those, who got it after seven days, or those, who were already on ventilator.

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