How to get Plasma?

First and Foremost you'll need two things:

1. Requisition Note / Form for plasma.

2. Blood sample of a person who is in need of plasma.

Note:  Unintentionally some WhatsApp groups who are helping people has caused people to believe that demand draft in the format of form is must. That is entirely false. If your doctor has written on plain paper stating patient details and his need for plasma  and has signed with his reg. number its a valid document and no lab/bank can refuse it.  

Now that you have the most basic two things, lets move on to getting plasma. 

There are blood banks that have plasma stored from donors. They will be the only ones that can provide you with plasma in any case. Blood banks can be private or government. 

Due to shortage they will ask you to bring donor. Before you take a donor to bank you need to make sure he/she is eligible for donation of plasma. Parameters for Eligibility Parameters for eligibility.

Lets assume you have a eligible donor. You will take the donor with you to the bank but extracting plasma is a time consuming process. It will take about an hour or so to collect the plasma and then the plasma has to cross checked with patient's sample to see if any complication arises. All in all it will take time, time you might not have. So, if the plasma of same blood group is available at the bank/lab they will take your patient's sample and test it with plasma in stock, soon as the find a match they will give you plasma meanwhile, they will start the denotation process with donor. 

It will cost you eve if you have donor. Why?

Do not buy plasma on the basis of blood group from any one. Why?  

Disclaimer: All the information here are based on best my knowledge, research and observation. I advise you to confirm any or everything with your consultant before making any decision. My aim is to merely provide info and answers for guidance, so you must make your own informed decision based upon the advise of your consultant Doctor.

Do not buy plasma only on the basis of same blood group.

Desperate time calls for desperate measures. The shortage of resource has lead to a lot of resources being black-marketed.. But plasma by design cannot be black-marketed by any individual. 

Never buy plasma from anyone even when they say that they have same blood group as the one you are looking for, because before insertion plasma needs to be tested with patients sample to ensure that there are no complications. Then and only then a plasma can be induced in the patient's body. 

You'll always need two things before you can get plasma, first is doctor's requisition/demand note  and second patients sample. 

Disclaimer: All the information here are based on best my knowledge, research and observation. I advise you to confirm any or everything with your consultant before making any decision. My aim is to merely provide info and answers for guidance, so you must make your own informed decision based upon the advise of your consultant Doctor.

If I have a donor will I have to pay for plasma?

Yes, you will still need to pay for plasma even if you have a donor for following reasons;

1. The cost for the operation of machine 

2. The cost for Lab/banks infrastructure such as equipment's, manpower, storages etc.

To keep a bank/ lab operational there are running expenses which are the sole reason you will have to pay for plasma no matter what. 

So, next time give it a thought before you label any bank/lab as corrupted or thief . They are also working where the have to come in contact with Covid patient's sample and more often then not to Covid positive people. They are as much at risk as a hospital staff/doctor. 

Disclaimer: All the information here are based on best my knowledge, research and observation. I advise you to confirm any or everything with your consultant before making any decision. My aim is to merely provide info and answers for guidance, so you must make your own informed decision based upon the advise of your consultant Doctor.

What Do I need to know Before I donate Plasma

Before you go for donation of plasma for Covid patient you need to check following things

It's been more than 30 days since your complete recovery.

You must not have Blood Pressure.

You must not have Diabetes (Sugar).

You should have never been pregnant. 

If you fulfill all above markers then and only then you should move to the next step. 

Now you will need to get tested for antibody count. 

if your count is above 20 only then you will be able to donate plasma. 

Why?

Because under 20 antibody count does not help patient that much and since you can only give certain amount of plasma to a patient its important to make sure the plasma you give has good level of anti bodies. 

Disclaimer: All the information here are based on best my knowledge, research and observation. I advise you to confirm any or everything with your consultant before making any decision. My aim is to merely provide info and answers for guidance, so you must make your own informed decision based upon the advise of your consultant Doctor.

 

Who Can Donate Plasma?

Plasma can be donated by only those:

Whose antibody count is more than 20 
Who doesn't have Blood Pressure Issue
Who doesn't have Diabetes (Sugar)
Who has never been Pregnant. 

All the information here are based on best my knowledge, research and observation. I advise you to confirm any or everything with your consultant before making any decision. My aim is to merely provide info and answers for guidance, so you must make your own informed decision based upon the advise of your consultant Doctor.