Human heart flown from Nagpur to Pune for transplant into air warrior
PTI, Jul 26, 2023, 6:06 PM IST
Nagpur: A harvested human heart was “expeditiously” sent from Nagpur to Pune on Wednesday morning to be transplanted into a recipient admitted to the Army Institute of Cardio-Thoracic Sciences, said a defence release.
The vital organ was sent through a green corridor created by the civil administration before being transported to Pune, over 700 km away, on an Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 aircraft in the “most expeditious” manner, it said.
The recipient is an ”air warrior and the flying time was around 90 minutes”, said an official. A green corridor is created with the aim of expediting organ transplants and saving lives.
For a green corridor, the traffic department collaborates to transport a vital organ in less than 60 to 70 per cent of the time that is usually taken to go from one place to another.
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