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The Buenosairean deputy Daniel Lipovetzky, Together for Change, will present this Monday a bill for patients recovered from coronaviruses in the province of Buenos Aires are required to donate their plasma and so it is used in the treatment of new infected.
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The initiative was confirmed by the legislator himself through his official Twitter account, after a message from journalist Fernando Bercovich, in which he asked if it would be wrong to take a measure in that direction.
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“Not bad at all, Fernando. On Monday I will be presenting a bill in the provincial Chamber of Deputies, the drafting of which I have just completed, establishing during the emergency, the obligation of at least one plasma donation for recovered persons over 18 and under 60 years of age, ” Lipovetzky replied.
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The leader of Together for Change explained that, “just as the Justina law marked a path, within the framework of this pandemic” the project seeks that all patients with COVID-19 be “considered presumed donors, except the express wish not to be. ”
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In this sense, he stressed that “it is about being in solidarity” and argued that “the obligation” for them to deliver plasma “is a moral commitment to exceed 10% of current donors in the province of Buenos Aires.”
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The publication generated great repercussion among the users of this social network, who for the most part were against this plan, considering that it violates individual liberties and goes against current legislation.
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“I am a doctor, a part of me wants it to be obligatory, but although I like the idea, it should not be like that, you cannot force yourself, or even worse, punish. You have to campaign, deliver brochures as soon as they are diagnosed, call them, speak personally with each one and they chooseWrote one user.
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In this same line, another user highlighted that the current law establishes that “the donation of blood or its components is an act of voluntary, solidary or altruistic disposition, by means of which a person accepts its extraction for exclusively medical purposes not being subject to remuneration or marketing ”.
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“What is this madness? Since when are you or anyone going to force me and decide about my body? Weren’t you the one in the photo “my body my decision”? No one belongs to the State, the State works for us, it is not our owner, ”wrote a third, referring to Lipovetsky’s known support regarding the project for legal, safe and free abortion.
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According to official data, 150 of the 175 patients with coronavirus transfused with blood plasma in the province of Buenos, that is to say 85 percent of them, recovered, assured this Saturday the director of the Buenos Aires Institute of Hemotherapy, Nora Etchenique.
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“We have 25 patients who died despite the plasma that was transfused, but these people were in critical condition, they had already presented multiple organ failure and had mechanical ventilation for 15 days,” said the professional.
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The doctor assured that after these cases it was observed that “the plasma apheresis transfusion works for moderate to severe patients” and assured that “for now” the health authorities have “stock to meet the demand” of the new patients.
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“This stricter quarantine will allow us to strengthen the teams to carry out this type of transfusion in the parties of General Rodríguez and the cities of Mar del Plata and Bahía Blanca,” the professional told television channel A24.
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However, the specialist pointed out that not all people recovered from coronaviruses can donate their plasma, although she estimated that about 30% of the elderly, women and children recovered can do so.
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“With the apheresis model, we have the same patient who can donate up to three times their plasma. For example, a man can do it up to five times a year, while a woman can do it four times ”, stressed the director of the institute.
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Lastly, Etchenique specified that this method is obtaining “very good results”, although he clarified that “asymptomatic patients who were detected with the Sars CoV-2 virus, no antibody can be extracted, yes in the case of those recovered who were in a moderate to severe state of the disease ”.
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The doctor indicated that the amount of plasma that is transferred is 275 cubic centimeters and that obese people should receive two units of plasma, while the Institute of Hemotherapy is still “studying the transfer of plasma by the apheresis method to children and adolescents who they are serious due to the coronavirus ”.
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