Hyderabad Green Corridor Helps Transport Organs in 22 Minutes

The organs were transported in 22 minutes covering the distance of 29 kms between the hospital and the airport.

A green corridor was created by the traffic police here for transporting heart and lungs.

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A green corridor was created by the traffic police here for transporting heart and lungs, harvested from a brain dead patient at a private hospital here, to the city airport en route to Chennai.

This enabled the organs to be transported in 22 minutes covering the distance of 29 kms between the hospital and the airport on Tuesday, 13 November, traffic police said.

The organs were subsequently transported to two hospitals in Chennai, the police added. The medical team carrying the organs left at 3.23 pm from Gleneagles Global Hospitals in Lakdi-Ka-Pul area and reached Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at 3.45 pm, an official release said.

Green corridors are special routes created for ambulances and other vehicles that so that they can transport harvested organs to the hospitals on time.

The local authorities operate the traffic signals manually and direct the vehicles in such a manner that they avoid traffic and red lights on their way. This saves much time and helps the organs get delivered at the soonest.

A similar green corridor was created earlier on November 2 when a harvested heart was transported to Care Hospital and was successfully transplanted into a 47-yea-old patient.

(With inputs from PTI)