COVID-19 patient in Bashkortostan is getting better after the blood transfusion

Recently, it was informed that Bashkir State Medical University in association with the Republican Blood Transfusion Station has started working on creating the database of COVID-19 reconvalescent donors who already had a new coronavirus infection. In Ufa today, on May 15, the patient who was transfused blood plasma from a person who had been ill with COVID-19 has begun to breathe independently.

As they say, the young man with COVID-19 was in critical condition and was connected to a ventilator. After the umbilical plasma transfusion, the patient began to breathe independently, and was disconnected from this device.

While a coronavirus vaccine is being under development, convalescent plasma transfusion is considered as an effective alternative for the treatment of severe patients with a coronavirus infection. BSMU Clinic was the first clinic in Ufa that began to transfuse anticovid plasma to fight COVID-19.

Earlier it was reported that Bashkortostan began to prepare plasma of people who had won that disease and whose blood had already developed antibodies https://www.bashgmu.ru/en/news/28529/