Dr. Tahir Shamsi, the director of the National Institute of Blood Diseases (NIBD) in Karachi, believed that blood from recovered Coronavirus patients could help slow the virus’s spread.
Dr. Shamsi mentioned a medical procedure called passive immunisation. Passive immunisation, first used in 1890, is used when there is a significant risk of infection, a short time for the body to produce an immune response, and no vaccine is available.
According to Dr. Shamsi, a COVID-19 patient’s body produces antibodies to combat the virus. These antibodies in a recovered patient’s blood could be employed to enhance the immune system of newly infected patients. Using this method, we can save many lives.
It’s worth noting that, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak, Chinese doctors utilised passive immunisation. Thousands of lives have been saved in China as a result of this procedure.
Passive immunisation will be effective for treating COVID-19, according to a study conducted by experts at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, confirming Dr. Shamsi’s theory.
Dr. Shamsi also revealed that the National Institute of Biomedical Research (NIBD) has written to the federal and provincial governments to inform them of the benefits of passive immunisation in the wake of the country’s Coronavirus outbreak.
