<p>A 'signal-free' 38-km corridor created by police today from the outskirts to a city hospital helped a patient from Delhi get a heart from a brain dead donor.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Bengaluru traffic police created the corridor for safe transportation of the heart of a brain dead person from BGS Hospital on Mysore road to Narayana Health City Hospital on Hosur road here in an ambulance.<br /><br />The 38-km distance was covered in just 23 minutes, police officials said.<br /><br />The donor was a 17-year-old college student, who had met with an accident recently. He was declared brain dead yesterday.<br /><br />The recipient is a 35-year-old man from Delhi.<br /><br />Narayana Health officials in a statement said the man was suffering from Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and had been waiting for a donor heart for the past five months.<br /><br />The heart transplant surgery took around 90 minutes, they said. </p>
<p>A 'signal-free' 38-km corridor created by police today from the outskirts to a city hospital helped a patient from Delhi get a heart from a brain dead donor.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Bengaluru traffic police created the corridor for safe transportation of the heart of a brain dead person from BGS Hospital on Mysore road to Narayana Health City Hospital on Hosur road here in an ambulance.<br /><br />The 38-km distance was covered in just 23 minutes, police officials said.<br /><br />The donor was a 17-year-old college student, who had met with an accident recently. He was declared brain dead yesterday.<br /><br />The recipient is a 35-year-old man from Delhi.<br /><br />Narayana Health officials in a statement said the man was suffering from Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and had been waiting for a donor heart for the past five months.<br /><br />The heart transplant surgery took around 90 minutes, they said. </p>