New Delhi: Donor heart from Jaipur reaches Fortis, using green Corridor
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New Delhi: A donor heart, airlifted from Jaipur, was safely delivered at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute here after a Green Corridor was created that helped cover a distance of 18.2 km from Delhi airport to the hospital in barely 16 minutes.
Fortis successfully performed a heart transplant on a 54-year-old man hailing from Gorakhpur who received the donor heart from Jaipur.
Fortis received a call from Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur about the availability of a heart from Jaipur from a brain dead male due to injury in the head following a road accident.
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