Heart takes off from Delhi to
reach Chennai in country's longest distance haul
New Delhi: Heart of a
deceased civilian was flown from Delhi to Chennai recently to
save life of an old man, who awaited a suitable heart transplant.
It is the longest haul of donated tissue in India, covering a distance
of more than 2,000 kilometres, which has an average flying time two hours and
40 minutes.
A donated heart has to be implanted into the recipient within four
hours of its retrieval; hence government and private entities came forward to
support this noble cause.
The transplant co-ordination team at Gleneagles Global Health
City received an alert about the availability of a suitable donor in Delhi,
from the TRANSTAN, the apex body that governs Organ transplantations in Tamil
Nadu.
The R & R Army hospital, took up the responsibility of 'harvesting'
the organ and rushing it to the Indira Gandhi -International Airport in New
Delhi, with the support of the Delhi Traffic Police, who created a
'green-corridor' for the smooth transit of the organ from the hospital.
The organ was taken aboard a Jet Airways flight, which took-off at 4:12
pm from Delhi.
The aircraft landed safely at the Chennai International airport at 6:50
pm, from where the Chennai City Traffic Police took over the responsibility of
safely getting the heart, within 36 minutes by 7:26 pm, to the Gleneagles
Global Health City at Perumbakkam.
Dr Sandeep Attawar, Director and Chair of Heart Failure and Transplant
Program, Gleneagles Global Hospitals Group and his team of doctors successfully
implanted the donated heart in a patient who was ailing with end-stage heart
failure.
03.04.2017
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