Airlines pitch in amid Covid: IndiGo flies plasma, SpiceJet launches portable ventilator support
Low-cost airline IndiGo on Tuesday flew two bags of blood plasma a person in Bengaluru donated after recovering from Covid-19 for convalescent plasma therapy for a critical 60-year-old woman infected by the disease in Srinagar. The plasma was delivered in over eight hours via Delhi to a hospital in Srinagar, around 3,000 km away, in the first such delivery in the country across two cities during the pandemic.
IndiGo officials said the airline is only the second in the world to have transported plasma like this successfully.
“The creation of the first air corridor in India to transport blood plasma can have a huge positive impact on the treatment of Covid-19 patients through plasma therapy,” said IndiGo‘s chief executive officer Ronojoy Dutta.
