Delhi duo design website to match COVID patients with plasma donors: Doondh.com

Amid soaring cases of Coronavirus in country, two friends from Delhi have designed a website to match plasma dors with patients. After having gone through a traumatic experience where he could t find a plasma dor for days his far-in-law, Adwitiya Mal and his childhood friend Mukul Pahwa decided to close in disparity between critical patients and plasma dors. Investing over ₹2.27 lakh from ir savings, y developed Doondh.com in about four days. next website which went live on June 12 soon began to grab eyeballs. 

Doondh.com works by matching patients and plasma dors. Both parties can register on site. Currently, re are about 579 patients and about 150 dors registered on site. 

Dhoondh founders have made it clear that y are t involved in medical aspect of process. ir job is to only connect prospective dors to patients who have been prescribed plasma rapy to battle COVID. 

All information is gared through consent and  founders, along, a few friends and volunteers connect  candidates manually. After a match is found based on location and blood group, founders call prospective dors, take consent for forwarding ir details to a patient and bridge gap between m.

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What is Plasma rapy?

Although virus has formulated cure, plasma rapy has been said to have yielded positive results in recovery of COVID-19 patients.  blood of a person who has recovered from COVID-19 develops antibodies to fight virus. This rapy uses antibodies from blood of a cured patient to treat ar critical patient. 

However, experts have maintained that although plasma rapy has given good results, re is t much data available on it and randomised control trials have been done with rapy. Hence, it is t advisable to use rapy as a regular treatment for virus.

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