A nurse shows blood plasma from a person who has recovered from Covid-19, to be used to help critically ill patients, on June 20 2020. Picture: REUTERS/ESSAM AL-SUDANIPakistanis with Covid-19 are risking their lives and navigating a shady black market to get blood plasma transfusions, despite scant medical proof about the remedy's effectiveness.
“It's all born out of desperation because everyone wants to believe there is an answer to this [coronavirus] question," Fareeha Irfan, a public health specialist, said. “Use of convalescent plasma can sometimes lead to life-threatening transfusion reactions and transmissions of infections," the society said.
Legal expert Osama Malik said provincial and federal authorities are “looking the other way" as non-approved centres administer plasma therapy at high prices.
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