Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 21) — Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri has donated his blood plasma on Tuesday to help patients fight against the coronavirus disease.
Zubiri, who had recovered from COVID-19, went to the Philippine General Hospital earlier in the day for his plasma donation.
“I was very lucky to have recovered with no complications, but that is not the case for many other patients, whose bodies are less prepared to fight this disease,” the senator said in a statement.
“If plasma donations can help them in any way, then I am more than happy to offer mine,” Zubiri added.
The senator announced on March 16 that he had contracted the virus after interacting with a COVID-19 patient in the Senate.
Senator Juan Edgardo Angara, also a COVID-19 survivor, previously bared that he had donated his blood which immediately went to a plasma therapy for a patient with a severe case.
The Philippine General Hospital (PGH), one of the government’s referral hospitals for COVID-19, earlier announced that the blood of patients who have recovered from the disease contain antibodies that could help others fight the infection.
It shared on April 9 that the first three survivors of the disease have come forward to donate their blood to help the infected patients.
COVID-19 survivors who wish to donate their blood may contact 155-200 or visit the Facebook page of the PGH for more details.
