Telangana: Nizamabad on course to begin plasma therapy

HYDERABAD: With the number of positive patients going up, Nizamabad is set to become the first district outside Hyderabad to begin plasma treatment. The district authorities have written to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) seeking permission to take up the plasma donation at the district headquarters hospital.
Authorities told TOI that they have been maintaining the data of the recovered patients and many are willing to donate.Nizamabad is one of the districts where local transmission is said to be high and the number of cases likely to go up.
The authorities are set begin the rapid antigen tests with 3,000 test kits already sent to the district.
Currently, 100 Covid-19 patients are undergoing treatment in the district hospital. The ICU bed capacity with oxygen has been increased from 40 to 250 and ventilator capacity to 70 from 25.