CHENNAI: The Chennai traffic police, on Sunday, created a green corridor from the airport to Global Hospital in Perumbakkam to transport a heart of a brain dead patient. The heart was flown from Bengaluru to Chennai to be transplanted in a patient at the hospital.
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The entire process - from the hospital in Bengaluru to Chennai, including the flight journey - took 55 minutes. The road leg in Chennai took 14 minutes though there were seven major junctions en route. Traffic policemen manning the operation said the exercise was smooth.
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"The flight from Bengaluru landed at 1.30pm, and an ambulance carrying the heart left the airport at 1.40pm. We covered the 15.5km distance in 14 minutes taking the Radial Road and the Medavakkam High Road. There were 24 policemen on duty, including one assistant commissioner and three inspectors," said Manivalan, inspector of Mambakkam police station.
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The first time doctors attempted an inter-state organ transport was in March 2014. Since then, it is becoming more and more regular. "The biggest drawback of an inter-state transport is the timing of flights. Chartered flights are very expensive," said an official from the Tamil Nadu Organ Sharing Registry in an earlier interaction with TOI. Doctors say that a heart can be kept in cold storage for up to four hours. , but the shorter the time taken for the transport, higher the chances of success.
Source : Heart from Bengaluru reaches Chennai in 55min - Times of India
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The entire process - from the hospital in Bengaluru to Chennai, including the flight journey - took 55 minutes. The road leg in Chennai took 14 minutes though there were seven major junctions en route. Traffic policemen manning the operation said the exercise was smooth.
.
.
"The flight from Bengaluru landed at 1.30pm, and an ambulance carrying the heart left the airport at 1.40pm. We covered the 15.5km distance in 14 minutes taking the Radial Road and the Medavakkam High Road. There were 24 policemen on duty, including one assistant commissioner and three inspectors," said Manivalan, inspector of Mambakkam police station.
. A spokesperson at the Global Hospital said, "The patient was very critical, and a heart transport was the only option." Doctors started preparing for the surgery as soon as the heart was removed from the donor. "The surgery went well and the patient is doing fine," he added.
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The first time doctors attempted an inter-state organ transport was in March 2014. Since then, it is becoming more and more regular. "The biggest drawback of an inter-state transport is the timing of flights. Chartered flights are very expensive," said an official from the Tamil Nadu Organ Sharing Registry in an earlier interaction with TOI. Doctors say that a heart can be kept in cold storage for up to four hours. , but the shorter the time taken for the transport, higher the chances of success.
Source : Heart from Bengaluru reaches Chennai in 55min - Times of India
