Covid-19: Odisha CM assigns ministers to promote plasma donation

BHUBANESWAR: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday roped in his colleagues in the cabinet to promote plasma donation in the state after critically-ill Covid patients have responded well to the plasma therapy.
Naveen has assigned charge of various districts to his ministers, who would visit the assigned districts and encourage recovered patients to donate their plasma to treat critically-ill patients, said a communication from the chief minister’s office.
The ministers have also been asked to facilitate donation while the chief minister said he would regularly review status of plasma donation in various districts.
While Niranjan Pujari has been given the responsibility of Puri district, Bikram Keshari Arukh will oversee the plasma donation process in Ganjam and Kandhamal, said the communication.
Districts assigned to other ministers include Prafulla Kumar Mallik (Bargarh), Ranendra Pratap Swain (Bhadrak, Kendrapada), Padmanabha Behera (Jharsuguda, Boudh), Pratap Jena (Mayurbhanj, Cuttack), Arun Sahoo (Nayagarh, Khurda), Sudam Marndi (Sonepur), Susanta Singh (Sambalpur, Balangir), Naba Das (Kalahandi, Nuapada), Tukuni Sahu (Deogarh, Sundargarh), Jagannath Saraka (Gajapati, Koraput), Dibya Shankar Mishra (Dhenkanal), Ashok Panda (Angul), Samir Dash (Jajpur), Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi (Balasore), Premananda Naik (Keonjhar), Raghunandan Das (Nabarangpur and Jagatsinghpur), Padmini Dian (Rayagada) and Tusharkanti Behera (Malkangiri)
“In Odisha, as many as 15,200 Covid-19 positive persons have so far recovered including 808 on Friday. The recovery rate in Odisha is more than the national average. It is heartening to know that many recovered patients have come forward to donate plasma. Ministers have been assigned to speak to more people and promote plasma donation,” said a senior government official.
While the state government has set up plasma bank at Cuttack and approved for Rourkela, plasma therapy has started in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Berhampur. Two more plasma banks will be set up at Berhampur and Bhubaneswar.
A recovered patient can donate plasma four weeks after his/her recovery. One unit of plasma can be used to treat two critically-ill patients.
Recently while inaugurating the plasma bank at SCB medical college in Cuttack, the chief minister had said that his government is committed to provide advanced medical care and treatment to the people infected with Covid in Odisha. He also said that for him and his government, life of every person is precious and the state would do everything possible to save lives of our people.
Odisha has been facilitating plasma therapy to critically ill patients free of cost.
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