A race against time across two states helped save the life of a 39-year-old man from Meerut, who received a donor heart that travelled from Chandigarh to Delhi in under two hours through green corridors.
The transplant, performed at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on August 26, offered the patient a new chance at life after years of battling dilated cardiomyopathy and severe mitral valve leakage that had left him struggling for breath and dependent on repeated intensive care admissions.
The organ was retrieved in Chandigarh and swiftly transported across multiple cities through meticulously coordinated green corridors, hospital officials said on Wednesday. The entire journey took one hour and 55 minutes, ensuring the heart reached Delhi in prime condition for transplant.
The patient had been registered with the National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) last month and was shortlisted when the donor organ became available.
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A surgical team led by Sujay Shad, Senior Consultant and Director of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, successfully performed the operation. “The fact that the heart reached us in under two hours played a pivotal role in the success of this surgery,” Shad said.
Doctors confirmed the patient was weaned off the ventilator within 18 hours and has since resumed light activity, signalling a promising recovery.
Hospital authorities credited the success to the seamless collaboration between NOTTO, retrieval and transplant teams, and traffic authorities in creating green corridors across two states.
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