Bengaluru: The Bengaluru traffic police on Sunday afternoon created a 22 -km green corridor to transport a harvested heart to a 30-year-old acute heart failure patient.
According to a report in a leading daily, it took the medical team to transport the heart from Apollo Hospitals on Bannerghatta Road to Narayana Health City on Hosur Road just 20 minutes.
Their effort gave a new lease of life to a 30-year-old Abhijit Pradhan, a native of Odisha. He was suffering with Acute Heart Failure End Stage (AHF-ES), severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction, according to the doctors.
The only way he could survive was heart transplantation. So, in May he registered himself with the Zonal Coordination Committee of Karnataka (ZCCK) for organ transplantation.
The donor is a 24-year-old female patient at Apollo Hospitals. She had met with a road accident in Bengaluru on June 9 and was admitted to the Apollo Hospital where she was declared brain-dead on Saturday night. Her father then decided to donate her organs, said doctors.
Dr Julius Punnen, senior consultant, thoracic surgeon, and Dr Bagirath Raghuram, senior cardiologist, Narayana Institute of Cardiac Science, performed the heart transplant successfully and the patient is doing fine, hospital sources said.
