{"id":13904,"date":"2020-04-09T17:39:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T12:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=13904"},"modified":"2020-04-09T17:39:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T12:39:47","slug":"pakistan-drap-approves-for-a-passive-immunization-to-war-against-covid19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/13904","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan (DRAP) approves for a passive immunization to war against COVID19"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) on Thursday granted approval for a passive immunization technique\u00a0to treat\u00a0coronavirus patients along with approval for the local production of ventilators and the manufacturing of the pharma ingredients\u00a0for chloroquine, a\u00a0drug found effective against COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n

The approval has been granted after the technical evaluation of the ventilators and successful clinical trials of the medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n

The federal government is likely to make the official announcement on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The National Institute of Blood Diseases (NIBD) had put forth the suggestion to the government of treating COVID-19 patients via passive immunization.<\/span><\/p>\n

Considering the recommendations, the Sindh government consulted experts\u00a0at the Indus Hospital, Agha Khan University Hospital, including the Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority (SBTA), on the matter, who also favoured the technique.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier, Punjab, as well as the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government, had issued a notification regarding the grant of approval\u00a0for the technique, while the federal government has decided a protocol for treating and conducting a medical analysis of the aforementioned technique, which has also been approved by National Bioethics Committee (NBC).<\/span><\/p>\n

As per sources in Islamabad, the protocol for collecting the data of the recovering patients has also been developed. After the approval, the coronavirus patients will be treated via the anti-bodies technique in NIBD Karachi, LUMS Medical University in Lahore and Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences (LUMHS) in Jamshoro.<\/span><\/p>\n

The recovered patients, after the official announcement of the approval of the technique, will be obliged to donate their plasmas.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the first time, after approval, ventilators would be produced locally which would save foreign exchange. Similarly, the pharma ingredients of chloroquine would also be manufactured locally in Pakistan after a decade.<\/span><\/p>\n

The authority is further deliberating on the recommendation of obliging recovered patients to donate their plasma.<\/span><\/p>\n

The health department and medical experts are deliberating over, taking and preserving plasma of a coronavirus patient, and utilising it for treating a patient critically ill with COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n

Medical experts have further recommended the federal government to store the information of the recovered patients in a database and provide them to the registered centres for conducting passive immunization so that the process of collecting plasma\u00a0from recovered patients could begin on a regular basis.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) on Thursday granted approval for a passive immunization technique\u00a0to treat\u00a0coronavirus patients along with approval for the local production of ventilators and the manufacturing of the pharma ingredients\u00a0for chloroquine, a\u00a0drug found effective against COVID-19. The approval has been granted after the technical evaluation of the ventilators and successful clinical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13905,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904\/revisions\/13905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}