Egypt achieves 60% success rate in plasma transfusion for COVID-19 treatment: official – Egypttoday

Egypt achieves 60% success rate in plasma transfusion for COVID-19 treatment: official – Egypttoday

FILE - Sonja Krauthoefer of the University Hospital Erlangen checks donated blood and plasma samples - Reuters





CAIRO - 26 July 2020: Egypt has so far received voluntary plasma donors in 15 centers nationwide, saying that convalescent plasma of 420 donors has been accepted, with a success rate of 60 percent in critical and severe cases, head of the Health Ministry's coronavirus (COVID-19) committee said.

The country now has a large strategic stock of convalescent plasma, Hossam Hosni said, adding that the ministry will announce on Monday the results of plasma injection.

Officials' remarks on the efficiency of plasma treatment for serious coronavirus cases are contradictory.

Earlier in July, Noha Essam, advisor to the Health Minister told Egypt Today that plasma treatment has shown significant and strong results but it does not work with all cases. Essam added that plasma therapy did not work with cases in critical conditions.

However, in June, Zayed stated that the convalescent plasma transfusion experiment for patients with critical coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms has shown successful results in Egypt.

The experiment to inject convalescent plasma has contributed to reducing the need for ventilators and increasing the number of recoveries, Zayed said.



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