Bengaluru: Karnataka’s first plasma therapy recepient has succumbed to his comorbidities, confirmed the state Health and Family Welfare Department, on Thursday.
The 60-year-old COVID-19 positive man was admitted to Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru.
“He was having multiple comorbidities and was in a very critical condition. He couldn’t be saved,” Karnataka
Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Jawaid Akhtar is quoted in The News Minute.
He suffered a cardiac arrest and had complex medical conditions such as pneumonia, hypertension, diabetes.
With his death, the health department officials said that they would not call it a failure of plasma therapy experiment.
It may be recalled that Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), on April 22 had given green signal to the state to carry out clinical trials for the use of plasma therapy, mainly on cases with high-risk comorbidities.
