![]() Organs retrieved from Aurangabad, Indore, Surat, Pune are sent to the Mumbai as these cities do not have super-speciality healthcare centres, informed officials. So, it is referred to other big centres in metropolitan cities. Also, there is an acute shortage of advanced healthcare facilities to carry out a transplant. Most states do not have enough well-trained experts to retrieve or perform transplant procedures. “Cadaver organs have a short life and so transplant should be done within a few golden hours.” Director (NOTTO) expressed, “Therefore, we are preparing a proposal for airlifting organs at any given moment.” ![]() National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO), the country’s apex organ donation agency, is now framing a proposal to airlift cadaver organs and will send a report to the Union Health Ministry. The distance of 14 kms was covered in 11 minutes.Įxperts point out the lack of a robust system to transport organs to super-speciality hospitals in least possible time. Delhi Traffic Police provided a green corridor from IGI Airport to Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in Vasant Kunj for transportation of a liver. Apart from this, a motorcade of police vehicles accompanies the ambulance ensuring that it does not face any problems. Personnel are stationed at selected points to divert, control and clear the traffic giving way to the ambulance. Similarly, such green corridors have been created by traffic police of various cities such as Pune, Mumbai, Delhi NCR etc. ![]() That organ saved a nine-year-old girl whose life depended on the transplant. The first green corridor in India was created by Chennai Traffic Police in September 2008 when they accomplished their task of enabling an ambulance to reach its destination within 11 minutes during peak hour traffic. Organs tend to have a very short preservation time, such as the heart which has to be harvested and transplanted within four hours or the lungs which can be preserved for only six hours once they are harvested. A ‘green corridor’ is a route cleared and cordoned off by the traffic police to ensure the smooth and steady transportation of harvested organs, on most occasions, to those awaiting a life-saving transplant. ![]() This process entails police escorting an ambulance, so as to move around traffic – usually a specific traffic lane is chosen and all signals on the route stay green to ensure it to reach its destination in the shortest possible time. The traditional method of transporting organs by road is referred to as a “green corridor”. ![]()
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