Another organ transport via Bengaluru Metro: Pair of lungs and heart travel 33 kms for transplant

Bengaluru: Namma Metro facilitated the transportation of a pair of lungs and heart for transplant from Sparsh Hospital in Yeshwanthpur to Narayana Health City and Aster RV Hospital.

To save the critical time, the transplant team boarded the metro train from Goraguntepalya Metro Station at 9.34 AM on the Green Line and the heart transplantation team reached Banashankari Metro Station at 10.15 AM.

The 30–33 kilometre journey took 61 minutes despite the weekday rush hour, according to the hospital.

The transplantation team of five members and a BMRCL home guard boarded the metro at 10 am and reached Bommasandra around 11 am and the transplantation procedure was taken up immediately, said the hospital.

Speaking to DH, a BMRCL spokesperson said, the staff of BMRCL stayed with the transplantation from the beginning to the end of the journey to facilitate everything went smoothly. The users were requested to vacate the seats two stations prior to make way for the team and enable the personnel safely carry the box, he added.

This is the third such organ transportation carried out with the help of BMRCL in Bengaluru city.

In the month of August, for the first time ever, a liver was transported and in the month of September a heart was transported.