A recovered male coronavirus patient surname He returns to the Wuxi No 5 People's Hospital to donate blood on Feb 17. [Photo/wxrb.com]
A recovered male coronavirus patient surname He returned to the Wuxi No 5 People's Hospital to donate blood in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, on Feb 17.
According to an updated version of the guidelines for diagnosing and treating the virus released by top health authorities, such convalescent plasma is recommended for clinical use.
He has recovered from the novel coronavirus pneumonia and was discharged from hospital on Feb 14. After learning from a report that the blood of recovered patients contains antibodies that can fight pathogens, he became the first recovered novel coronavirus patient to donate blood in Wuxi.
He feels honored to support the city's efforts to prevent and control the virus outbreak. [Photo/wxrb.com]
In addition to regular blood donation examinations, He also received nucleic acid detection-based tests for the coronavirus. The plasma donation process took nearly 40 minutes.
He said that as a Communist Party member, he felt honored to support the city's efforts to prevent and control the virus outbreak.
"The collected plasma will be mainly used for novel coronavirus pneumonia patients in critical condition," said Qiu Yuanwang, vice president of Wuxi No 5 People's Hospital, adding that some other recovered patients have expressed a willingness to donate plasma as well.
