The Indian Council of Medical Research has dropped the use of convalescent plasma from the recommended treatment guidelines for Covid-19.
The National Task Force of the ICMR, along with experts from the Health Ministry, periodically updates guidelines on recommended modes of treatment.
Though a trial by the ICMR on 400 patients last year had found no significant benefit from the use of plasma it continued to find a place in the recommended guidelines.
Registered Doctors anywhere, however, aren’t bound by the Task Force recommendations.
Several other international trials had also found no benefit from plasma therapy.