Donor heart gets to hospital in 8 minutes in Chennai

July 30, 2014 09:12 am | Updated 09:12 am IST - CHENNAI:

In the early hours of Tuesday, the heart of a 22-year-old woman was transported over 14 kilometres, from Manapakkam to a hospital in Mogappair.

The organ, which was brought through a green corridor created by the city traffic police, reached the hospital in merely eight minutes.

The donor, Elsheeba, a resident of Chennai, had sustained severe head injury in a road accident near Ashok Pillar. The two-wheeler she was riding collided with another two-wheeler.

She was brought to MIOT Hospital at Manapakkam at 3.30 p.m. on Monday. She did not respond to treatment and was declared brain dead.

After her family agreed, her organs were harvested.

Officials said the heart went to Frontier Lifeline Hospital, Mogappair, the liver and one kidney to MIOT Hospital and another kidney to Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital.

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