In a first of its kind initiative in the country, the Hyderabad metro rail on Tuesday created a special green corridor for 21 kilometres to facilitate non-stop transport of a harvested heart for transplantation at Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills.
A special metro train, which started from Nagole metro station, picked up the healthy heart harvested from a braindead patient at Kamineni Hospital, LB Nagar at around 4.40 pm and travelled through the entire stretch of 21 kilometres non-stop to reach Jubilee Hills check-post, crossing 16 stations.
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“It took less than 30 minutes for the train to reach Jubilee Hills check-post station. All stations were kept on guard and were informed through a public address system regarding the movement of the special train,” KVB Reddy, chief executive officer of L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad Limited said.
An ambulance was kept ready at the destination station to take the heart and rush to the Apollo Hospitals at Jubilee Hills, about a kilometre away, to save the life of a patient who was waiting for the heart transplantation. “Only a team of medical experts only travelled along with the harvested heart in the special train,” Reddy said.
{{/usCountry}}An ambulance was kept ready at the destination station to take the heart and rush to the Apollo Hospitals at Jubilee Hills, about a kilometre away, to save the life of a patient who was waiting for the heart transplantation. “Only a team of medical experts only travelled along with the harvested heart in the special train,” Reddy said.
{{/usCountry}}Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited managing director NVS Reddy claimed that it was for the first time that such a special train was run to transport a heart to save a life.