New Delhi: A green corridor was created in Delhi on Thursday to transport a liver and a heart which helped in saving the lives of two men. The Delhi Police helped in creating the green corridor by allowing ambulances carrying the liver and heart to move unhindered.
According to AIIMS director Dr MC Misra, the liver and heart were flown to Delhi from Indore, following which it was brought to AIIMS from IGI airport through a green corridor, created at around 10 AM on Thursday.
The fresh lease of life to two patients was given by a 35-year-old man, who was declared brain dead.
The man, who was undergoing treatment for serious injuries in road accident at CHL hospital Indore in Madhya Pradesh was declared brain dead at 11.45 AM on March 9 following which the doctors consulted his family who agreed to donate his organs.
Dr MC Misra received a call about the patient following which a team of doctors from cardio-thoracic and vascular sciences centre (CTVS), AIIMS lead by Dr Milind Hote flew to Indore to retrieve the heart.
"It was transplanted in a 52-year-old woman, a resident of Kalkaji who suffered from Dilated Cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart's ability to pump blood is decreased because the heart's main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, is enlarged and weakened along with with severe Left ventricular dysfunction (LVD)," said AIIMS Director MC Mishra.
The liver was transplanted to a adult at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences(ILBS), who is doing well after the surgery.
(With PTI Inputs)
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