Agencies:

Doctors in Kashmir valley are struggling to save the lives of critically-ill Coronavirus patients due to the unaffordable medicines and unavailable plasma therapy.

At Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Parents of a Doctor, severely sick with symptoms of COVID-19 were provided plasma therapy last week. The patients are yet to be discharged from the hospital but doctors treating them are hopeful that they will make it. These patients had been administered �convalescent plasma therapy (CPT) on compassionate grounds�, a senior medico who is part of the treating team at the Institute said.

However, although the deaths attributed to COVID19 have been mounting in Kashmir with each passing day, the treating doctors are restricted in their choices of medicines and therapies.