Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij was administered a dose of COVID-19 plasma on Monday. Vij was on Sunday evening shifted from Ambala Cantonment Civil Hospital to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak, after he showed ‘advanced COVID-19 symptoms’. Vij is undergoing treatment for COVID in VIP room of isolation ward in Rohtak PGIMS.
Talking to The Pioneer over the phone, Haryana Director General of Health Services Dr Suraj Bhan Kamboj said that the Health Minister was administered a dose of Covid-19 plasma. The Minister is comfortable and all his other parameters are fine.
A team of multi-specialty doctors has been formed to treat the Health Minister, he added. Kamboj said that Vij’s health was being monitored closely by a team of half a dozen multi-specialty doctors. The institution is also in touch with doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, and Medanta in Gurugram. Dr Dhruv Chaudhary, HOD and State Nodal Officer of PCCM Department of PGI and Dr. VK Katyal, HOD of Department of Medicine, Department of Anesthesia Physicians have been included in the team.
Doctors are monitoring his sugar level and blood pressure also because the Health Minister is diabetic, he added.
The Minister is having symptoms of fever and cough after testing positive for the virus. The doctors had administered Vij a trial dose (either vaccine or placebo) during the third phase of the indigenous vaccine for Coronavirus at Ambala hospital two weeks ago before he was tested positive for the virus.