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Hyderabad Metro delivers life-saving donor heart in record time

Hyderabad Metro Rail played a crucial role in facilitating the transportation of a donor heart from Kamineni Hospitals to Gleneagles Global Hospital. A dedicated 'green corridor' was created, covering 13 kilometers, enabling the medical team to transport the heart in just 13 minutes. This corridor, similar to the one used in September 2022 to transport a heart from Apollo Hospital to Nagole, involves coordinating traffic signals to give priority to the ambulance carrying the organ, ensuring timely and safe delivery. This initiative highlights the vital role of public transportation systems in facilitating life-saving medical procedures.

09:30 AM Jan 18, 2025 IST | Mohammed Rayees

Updated At - 09:38 AM Jan 18, 2025 IST

hyderabad metro delivers life saving donor heart in record time

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metro Rail facilitated the seamless transportation of a donor's heart from one hospital to another on Friday. The metro rail officials had set up a dedicated green corridor to help transport a donor heart.

The green corridor, covering a distance of 13 kilometres, helped the medical team carry the heart from Kamineni Hospitals in LB Nagar to Gleneagles Global Hospital in Lakdi-ka-pul, in just 13 minutes, according to officials.

The special corridor was a result of careful planning and coordination between Hyderabad Metro Rail, medical team and hospital management. The entire journey was supervised by the medical professionals to ensure the heart is delivered in its original condition and on time.

Hyderabad Metro Rail along with the security officials and medical professionals had carried out a similar humanitarian mission in September 2022 too. The metro train enabled a team of doctors to transport a live heart from Apollo Hospital at Jubilee Hills to Nagole to save a life.

The doctors travelled a distance of 21-km in just 25 minutes with a life-saving heart. Another team of medical professionals received the harvested heart at the Nagole metro station and saved the patient’s life. The task was challenging for the metro rail officials as 20,000 cricket fans, who went to the nearby Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium at Uppal to watch a T20 cricket match, were waiting to board the metro trains on their return journey.

#WATCH | Hyderabad, Telangana: Hyderabad Metro facilitated a green corridor for heart transportation on 17th January 2025 at 9:30 PM. The corridor facilitated the swift and seamless transportation of a donor heart from LB Nagar’s Kamineni Hospitals to Gleneagles Global Hospital,… pic.twitter.com/wFWMZ0A3ZT
— ANI (@ANI) January 17, 2025

What is a ‘Green Corridor’?

Earlier, the traffic police would create a ‘Green corridor’ for the transportation of vital organs through roads. A green corridor is a dedicated route along the road (now metro line) where traffic signals are controlled manually to give a green signal to the ambulance carrying a harvested heart to save critical time for the ongoing medical procedure at the destination hospital.

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