Ministry of Health conducts a successful medical procedure on recovered COVID-19 people

Muscat: The Ministry of Health successfully conducted a procedure of convalescent plasma extraction and transfusion from people who have recovered from COVID - 19.

A statement issued online by The Ministry of Health said: “ The Ministry represented by the Central Blood Bank and the Royal hospital performed successfully a procedure of convalescent plasma extraction and transfusion from people who have recovered from COVID - 19.”

“Many recovered patients donated their blood plasma according to the global blood banks ' standards and controls .” The statement added

The Ministry pointed out that: “Recovered donors were scrutinized in the MOH’s Central Blood Bank laboratories to take their plasma in order to be injected into the critically ill patients admitted in the RH.”

“The clinical vital signs of patients are closely monitored to measure the effectiveness of this therapy.” The statement added