Signal free corridor helps patient get heart from donor

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Press Trust of India Bengaluru
Last Updated : Dec 20 2015 | 6:32 PM IST
A 'signal-free' 38-km corridor created by police today from the outskirts to a city hospital helped a patient from Delhi get a heart from a brain dead donor.
Bengaluru traffic police created the corridor for safe transportation of the heart of a brain dead person from BGS Hospital on Mysore road to Narayana Health City Hospital on Hosur road here in an ambulance.
The 38-km distance was covered in just 23 minutes, police officials said.
The donor was a 17-year-old college student, who had met with an accident recently. He was declared brain dead yesterday.
The recipient is a 35-year-old man from Delhi.
Narayana Health officials in a statement said the man was suffering from Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and had been waiting for a donor heart for the past five months.
The heart transplant surgery took around 90 minutes, they said.
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First Published: Dec 20 2015 | 6:32 PM IST

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