Maharashtra launches world's largest plasma therapy trial 'Project Platina' for COVID-19 patients

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray virtually launched world’s largest convalescent plasma therapy trial project ‘Project Platina’ on 29 June 2020, for treating critical COVID-19 patients.
The state government has approved Rs 16.65 crore for the project from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.
21 centres have been picked for the trial, including 17 medical colleges under the department of medical education and drugs, the government of Maharashtra and four BMC medical colleges in Mumbai.
Under the project, critical patients will receive two doses of 200 ml of plasma recovered from COVID-19 patients.
The treatment will be provided free of cost to all coronavirus patients under the trial project.
Plasma is the liquid part of the blood which have antibodies to the coronavirus, thereby fight the infection and helping critically-ill patients to recover.