Cops Set Green Corridor to Transport Heart to Save Patient

In a heart-warming action, cops helped transfer a human heart harvested from a body in Karnataka, reach a hospital in Tamil Nadu on time (southern states in India) last Wednesday. The cops created a ‘green corridor’ to facilitate unhindered transport of the heart from BGS Hospital in Bangalore to Fortis Hospital in Chennai. The distance of 42 kms from the hospital to the Bangalore Airport was covered by the ambulance in 40 minutes as against one and half hours it would normally take, Karnataka traffic police said.

The flight landed at the Chennai airport at 4.25pm and the ambulance carrying the heart left the airport at 4.30pm reaching the Fortis Hospital at 4.37pm, said a traffic police in Tamil Nadu.


BGS Hospital Vice President Dr N K Venkataramana said the transportation took place without hassles. "I got a call in the morning from Fortis Hospital in Chennai asking for a heart to save a patient there. I sought help from traffic police to provide us green corridor for transporting the heart."


"The traffic police arranged for everything for transporting the heart. All the traffic junctions on the route were put on alert. We were in contact with the hospitals' technical teams while transporting it," he said.


Green Corridors to facilitate transportation of organs for transplant is a common phenomena in foreign countries, but in India it happens rarely. "It gives an opportunity to save a life quickly," he added.


The heart was taken in a special box out of BGS Hospital, he added. The teams of doctors at both BGS and Fortis hospitals were in touch with each other and sharing information about the condition of the heart and the recipient, Venkataramana said.
A human heart can be preserved for up to six hours with help of a solution, he said, adding that, a woman, who died after suffering brain haemorrhage in an accident, donated the heart.

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Source-Medindia