The Tablighi Jamaat members who have tested negative and have thus recovered from coronavirus have come forward to donate their plasma after government appeal. On Tuesday, the Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad Kandhalvi issued a letter in which he appealed to coronavirus survivors to donate blood plasma for COVID-19 treatment.
The news of the religious congregation breaking social distancing rules to hold a meeting in March had led to the Delhi Police crime branch lodging an FIR against some members.
However, the leader, who is still in quarantine with a few others, issued a letter to those who have recovered from the virus. “If there is a person suffering from COVID disease anywhere in the world, this should affect all humanity,” he wrote. “It is my humble request to all Muslims and especially da’wah workers who receive this message to come forward and show this act of kindness to humanity, and help the society and government by donating blood plasma to a sick person.”
Plasma therapy is a treatment that requires the use of plasma collected from fully recovered people on patients currently suffering from the disease. Those who have fully recovered from COVID-19 are said to have antibodies in their plasma that may help expedite recovery of those critically ill due to the virus.