Continuing its campaign to combat Covid-19 under Mission Fateh, Punjab Government on Sunday decided to provide plasma to private hospitals from government’s Plasma Bank at a reasonable cost.
Private hospitals, treating Covid-19 patients, were demanding to provide plasma from the day of establishment of plasma bank, said the spokesperson of the Department of
Medical Education and Research, adding that after deliberation with experts of the field, the State Government has decided to provide plasma to these private hospitals at a cost of Rs 20,000 per unit.
Spokesperson also clarified that plasma would be made available free of cost to the patients undergoing treatment in the Government hospitals of Punjab.
Notably, the state’s first Plasma Bank was inaugurated online by the state Medical Education and Research Minister OP Soni on July 21 at Government Medical College and Rajindra Hospital at Patiala.