A brain dead women’s harvested heart from Bangalore was airlifted in a flawless speed to Chennai to transplant the same on a patient who needed the heart. In a kudos to Bangalore city police they created a green corridor,(no traffic on the way to ambulance) on Wednesday to lead an ambulance to reach the Kempegowda international airport around 42 kms away from a private hospital at Kengeri, a satellite town in Bangalore.
According to Bangalore city police, the harvested heart from a woman, who died after suffering brain haemorrhage in an accident, was taken from BGS Hospital at Kengeri to Fortis Hospital in Chennai, in just 40 minutes, really a daunting task in Bangalore, the city which is dead with traffic jams.
Even though it is common in foreign countries to create green corridor to allow the ambulance to travel unhindered, this coordinate effort by the police and hospital staff to make way for the ambulance to carry a harvested heart has made Bangalore police proud.
Dr NK Venkataramana, vice president of the BGS Hospital feels proud of the efforts by the police and his staff. He appreciates the gesture of the people who understood the need of the hour in cooperating with the police.He said, “I got a call in the morning from Fortis Hospital in Chennai asking for a heart to save a patient there. I sought help from traffic police to provide us green corridor for transporting the heart.”
“The traffic police arranged for everything for transporting the heart. All the traffic junctions on the route were put on alert. We were in contact with the hospitals’ technical teams while transporting it,” he said.According to Dr Venkataramana a human heart can be preserved for up to six hours with help of a solution. “A woman, who died after suffering brain haemorrhage in an accident, donated the heart,”he added.
The image of the Bangalore police was dented miserably after many rape incidents which shook the city, but this great coordinated effort in flawless and timely help has brought all the laurels to the police. According to Girish, DCP traffic (west) the ambulance has covered the distance in just 40 minutes to reach the airport. He feels it was a coordinated effort which made the daunting task possible.