A West Palm Beach doctor who is in ICU at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center after contracting COVID-19 received the plasma donation his family so desperately wanted.Paul Laroche reached out to the public last week for help and this weekend his prayers were answered when a donor, who was a perfect match, came forward.He said right after they did the plasma transplant his brother, Dr. Vladimir Laroche, started stabilizing, but is not out of the woods just yet."There's light at the end of the tunnel,” Laroche said. “The community prayers have made a tremendous difference and it was a great Easter!"Laroche said a mutual friend introduced him to Miami-Dade County resident named Basil Binns.Binns said he tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-March and spent two weeks in quarantine.He said when he heard about Paul’s brother through a mutual friend he knew he had to help.“He explained his brother's condition and asked if I wanted to help, I told him I would do whatever I could,” Binns said.The Laroche family is grateful.They’ve set up a not for profit database network called, Heal As One, to help other COVID-19 patients find matching donors.“That has been the greatest pay it forward, that's been the greatest gift,” Laroche said.

A West Palm Beach doctor who is in ICU at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center after contracting COVID-19 received the plasma donation his family so desperately wanted.

Paul Laroche reached out to the public last week for help and this weekend his prayers were answered when a donor, who was a perfect match, came forward.


He said right after they did the plasma transplant his brother, Dr. Vladimir Laroche, started stabilizing, but is not out of the woods just yet.

"There's light at the end of the tunnel,” Laroche said. “The community prayers have made a tremendous difference and it was a great Easter!"

Laroche said a mutual friend introduced him to Miami-Dade County resident named Basil Binns.

Binns said he tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-March and spent two weeks in quarantine.

He said when he heard about Paul’s brother through a mutual friend he knew he had to help.

“He explained his brother's condition and asked if I wanted to help, I told him I would do whatever I could,” Binns said.

The Laroche family is grateful.

They’ve set up a not for profit database network called, Heal As One, to help other COVID-19 patients find matching donors.

“That has been the greatest pay it forward, that's been the greatest gift,” Laroche said.