Green corridor provided for heart transplant
10 April 2018 5:09 AM IST
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police provided the green corridor for the heart transplant in which the heart was flown from Jaipur, Rajasthan, to AIIMS in Delhi. The Organ Retrieval Banking Organisation ( ORBO) requested Delhi Police to provide the same so that the heart is transferred to the needy patient at the earliest.
The heart has to be transplanted within 4 hours after retrieving it, while expressing need to keep everything ready including transportation facilities so that crucial time is not wasted.
"The heart was flown to Delhi from Jaipuir and the flight landed at IGI at around 11:50 am on Monday. The heart was taken through green corridor which took just 18 minutes from IGI to AIIMS," said a senior police officer.
The operation turned out to be successful. It was due to the meticulous work of the doctors and also the Delhi Traffic police which made the routes clear and provided swift passage through green corridor," said Balram, Transplant coordinator ORBO.
Earlier, The Delhi Police provided a green corridor on April 5 after a patient's relative tweeted to Delhi Police requesting green corridor to take the sick child from Dwarka to a hospital in Saket.
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