Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has said that the Federal Governmen...
Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has said that the Federal Government is working on research, using plasma from the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients to treat people infected with the virus.
The minister disclosed this on Sunday while answering questions from newsmen in Abuja on the possibility of using plasma of recovered coronavirus patients to treat serious cases.
Ehanire, who spoke at a news conference to commemorate the World Blood Donor Day (WBDD), also said that some research institutes were already working on the new research.
He explained that plasma of patients recovered from COVID-19 is called Convalescent plasma.
