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Green corridor helps heart travel 22 kms in just 39 minutes for successful transplant
Updated On: 09 October, 2015 08:00 PM IST | | A Correspondent
A cadaveric heart was retrieved from a 34-year-old road accident victim in Gurgaon, transported a distance of 22 kms in just about 39 minutes, and transplanted in a 13-year-old boy in Delhi on Friday
Peak hour traffic and Prime Minister’s movement made way for a beating heart which raced through the distance of 21.9 kilometers in 38 minutes and 55 seconds from Gurgaon to Delhi to save the life of a 13-year-old boy. The heart of a 34-year-old road accident victim was transported through a green corridor from Fortis Memorial Research Institute in Gurgaon to All India Institute of Medical Sciences in neighbouring Delhi.
The AIIMS cardiac transplant team arrived at the facility at 6am and the heart was harvested at 9:15 am. The ambulance left the premises at 9:17 am to reach AIIMS crossing MG Road, Chattarpur, IIT and Green Park in the next 38 minutes, 55 seconds.


