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Chennai shows 'heart', halts for organ transfer

Hindustan Times | By, Chennai
Sep 04, 2014 10:08 AM IST

In another example of efficiency, Chennai cops helped transfer a human heart, harvested from a body in Bangalore, reach a Chennai hospital on time.

In another example of efficiency, Chennai cops helped transfer a human heart, harvested from a body in Bangalore, reach a Chennai hospital on time.

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The ambulance carrying the heart fast-tracked the distance of 12km in just under seven minutes from the Chennai airport.

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The flight landed at the Chennai airport at 4.25pm and the ambulance carrying the heart left the airport at 4.30pm reaching the hospital at 4.37pm, said a traffic police official.



Traffic is usually heavy on the road from Airport to south Chennai that wends its way through a couple of bottlenecks. But the traffic police, three at each major junction, coordinated the flow in such a way that the path was absolutely clear for the ambulance carrying the heart.

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