<p>Motorists did themselves proud on Wednesday and made way on busy roads for an 11-minute-long dash of an ambulance carrying a donor’s liver over a nine-kilometre ‘green corridor’ from the airport to a south Delhi hospital. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The mission from Indira Gandhi International Airport to the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in Vasant Kunj was successful.<br /><br />The liver of a fatal road accident victim in Lucknow was transported to the capital to give a fresh lease of life to a 52-year-old man. <br /><br />“The organs of a 28-year-old man were airlifted from Lucknow and then the liver was transported to the hospital in Vasant Kunj through the green corridor,” said ILBS Director Dr S K Sarin.<br /><br />After the deceased man’s family agreed to donate his organs, a team from ILBS left for Lucknow to receive the liver. The hospital had received information on the availability of the organ late on Tuesday. With the donor being A-positive, ILBS had called potential recipients of the same blood group.<br /><br />“The most sick patient with a damaged liver functioning was chosen for the transplant,” Sarin added. The liver was retrieved at King George’s Medical University in Lucknow.<br /><br />“The Ministry of Civil Aviation helped us airlift the liver to the capital and we had also approached Delhi Traffic Police to provide a green corridor,” Sarin added.<br /><br />Normal life <br /><br />Without the transplantation, the lifespan of the patient would have ranged between six months and a year. In all probabilities, the patient can now lead a normal life. <br /><br />This is the seventh cadaver donation that ILBS has received this year. The ambulance was driven from Terminal 3 of IGI Airport through Aerocity, Mahipalpur, Abdul Gaffar Khan Marg, Masoodpur and Kishangarh village to Vasant Kunj. <br />“Traffic police ensured that there were no obstructions or traffic jams. We are happy to contribute in the noble cause of saving a life,” said Muktesh Chander, Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic). <br /><br />The coordination by traffic police, hospital authorities and cooperative faceless motorists, often flogged for insensitivity and mindless road rage, proved that Delhiites, after all, are large-hearted and benevolent.<br /><br />In February, Delhi Traffic Police had also helped an ambulance to transport a brain dead patient at Orchid Hospital in west Delhi’s Janakpuri to AIIMS Trauma Centre to facilitate organ donation. The 25-km journey was completed in 21 minutes. <br /><br />Delhi Traffic Police had also joined forces with Gurgaon Police to create a 32-km green corridor from Fortis Memorial Research Institute in Gurgaon Sector-44 to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in south-east Delhi’s Okhla for a heart transplant.</p>
<p>Motorists did themselves proud on Wednesday and made way on busy roads for an 11-minute-long dash of an ambulance carrying a donor’s liver over a nine-kilometre ‘green corridor’ from the airport to a south Delhi hospital. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The mission from Indira Gandhi International Airport to the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in Vasant Kunj was successful.<br /><br />The liver of a fatal road accident victim in Lucknow was transported to the capital to give a fresh lease of life to a 52-year-old man. <br /><br />“The organs of a 28-year-old man were airlifted from Lucknow and then the liver was transported to the hospital in Vasant Kunj through the green corridor,” said ILBS Director Dr S K Sarin.<br /><br />After the deceased man’s family agreed to donate his organs, a team from ILBS left for Lucknow to receive the liver. The hospital had received information on the availability of the organ late on Tuesday. With the donor being A-positive, ILBS had called potential recipients of the same blood group.<br /><br />“The most sick patient with a damaged liver functioning was chosen for the transplant,” Sarin added. The liver was retrieved at King George’s Medical University in Lucknow.<br /><br />“The Ministry of Civil Aviation helped us airlift the liver to the capital and we had also approached Delhi Traffic Police to provide a green corridor,” Sarin added.<br /><br />Normal life <br /><br />Without the transplantation, the lifespan of the patient would have ranged between six months and a year. In all probabilities, the patient can now lead a normal life. <br /><br />This is the seventh cadaver donation that ILBS has received this year. The ambulance was driven from Terminal 3 of IGI Airport through Aerocity, Mahipalpur, Abdul Gaffar Khan Marg, Masoodpur and Kishangarh village to Vasant Kunj. <br />“Traffic police ensured that there were no obstructions or traffic jams. We are happy to contribute in the noble cause of saving a life,” said Muktesh Chander, Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic). <br /><br />The coordination by traffic police, hospital authorities and cooperative faceless motorists, often flogged for insensitivity and mindless road rage, proved that Delhiites, after all, are large-hearted and benevolent.<br /><br />In February, Delhi Traffic Police had also helped an ambulance to transport a brain dead patient at Orchid Hospital in west Delhi’s Janakpuri to AIIMS Trauma Centre to facilitate organ donation. The 25-km journey was completed in 21 minutes. <br /><br />Delhi Traffic Police had also joined forces with Gurgaon Police to create a 32-km green corridor from Fortis Memorial Research Institute in Gurgaon Sector-44 to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in south-east Delhi’s Okhla for a heart transplant.</p>
