Jakarta to provide hospitals with Covid-19 survivors’ plasma to treat patients

Sonja Krauthoefer of the University Hospital Erlangen checks donated blood and plasma samples, if the blood of the donor can be used for the production of therapeutic plasma for the treatment of seriously ill Covid-19 patients, in Erlangen, Germany, April 7, 2020. - Reuters

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The Jakarta administration is cooperating with the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology and the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) to provide hospitals with supplies of convalescent plasma in the capital to help treat severe Covid-19 cases.

Eijkman Institute director Amin Soebandrio said the plasma, taken from the blood of donors who previously survived the disease, contained antibodies that would prove effective in neutralising the coronavirus incubating within the patients.