Plasma of patients recovered from COVID-19 is collected in Bashkiria

Today, the first immune, Amotosalen and ultraviolet A pathogen-reduced plasma from a donor who recovered from COVID-19 was prepared in Ufa. The Republican Blood Transfusion Station, together with Bashkir State Medical University, began work on creating a database of COVID-19 convalescent donors who had the new coronavirus infection, the press service of the Ministry of Health of the region reports.

Convalescent plasma transfusion is an effective alternative for treating severe patients with coronavirus infection. In Russia, the plasma of patients who underwent the coronavirus was first used only a few weeks ago at the N.I. Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, O.K. Gavrilov Blood Center, I.V. Davydovsky Clinical Hospital and Clinical Hospital No. 52 of the city of Moscow. The Republic of Bashkortostan was among the first of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, to procure plasma from a donor undergoing COVID-19.

All recovered residents of the region are invited to surrender plasma.

Also, a mobile blood collection complex was arranged at the Clinic of the Bashkir State Medical University.