Green corridor helps heart reach Fortis Escorts Heart Institute from AIIMS Delhi in 14 mins
Green corridor helps heart reach AIIMS from Delhi airport in 12 mins;
New Delhi: A green corridor was recently created from AIIMS Delhi to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in Okhla to facilitate the transportation of a live heart, with the help of the Delhi Traffic police.
The distance of about 5.5 km was covered within 4.25 minutes for transportation of the heart which takes almost 13-15 minutes in a normal routine. The efforts and assistance provided by Delhi Traffic Police were appreciated by the administration of Fortis Hospital.
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According to Shweta Singh Chauhan, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Traffic, South East District, Delhi, Fortis Hospital informed police that a human heart was to be transported to the hospital from AIIMS for transplantation into a patient.
To facilitate this important transportation, a green corridor was created from AIIMS to Fortis Hospital, New Friends Colony, New Delhi, and the organ was transported successfully. The doctor's team who created the green corridor was led by Dr. ZS Meharwal, executive director and head of Adult Cardiac Surgery, VAD and Heart Transplantation Programme; Dr. Vishal Rastogi, head, Heart Failure Clinic at FEHI, and Dr. Naveen Saraf, director, Cardio Thoracic Vascular Surgery at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Okhla.
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