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Jun 9, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
20 March: Dr Tahir Shamsi @62Shamsi Dean & Professor of Medicine, National Institute of Blood Diseases (#NIBD) suggests convalescent #plasma (CP) #treatment for patients with serious #Covid_19 infection
7 April: Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) approved CP treatment
30 April: Trials begin at 3 hospitals in Sindh ~ NIBD, Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi & Liaquat University Hospital in Hyderabad
10 May: Five more hospitals across Pakistan sought DRAP nod to conduct clinical trials for passive immunisation