How Cops Cleared 32KM Of Congestion To Get A Beating Heart To Its New Owner
In our this week's Feel Good Friday column, we bring to you a story of how a 16-year-old boy got a new life when police from the Indian cities of Delhi and Gurgaon came together to create a Green Corridor to help transfer a heart swiftly and safely.
Cover image via toiThe Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway is a 28 km long access-controlled toll expressway connecting Delhi, the capital of India and Gurgaon, a city in Haryana. The traffic on the expressway sometimes run up to a Kilometer resulting in stoppage time of over an hour.
File picture of a traffic jam at the Toll plaza on Delhi -Gurgaon expressway in New Delhi
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This is the usual scene during rush hours there
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And at times, this happens too:
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Once stuck, people usually don't make it on time for their meetings
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But on 4 January 2015, a convoy of ambulances covered the distance of 32km, starting from Sector 44 in Gurgaon to Okhla in South Delhi, in just 29 minutes flat. Their cargo: a live, beating heart waiting to be transplanted into a 16-year-old boy.
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For the record, it takes over an hour to cover the distance
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So how did these people manage to do it in just 29 minutes?
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Because of the joined efforts of Delhi and Gurgaon police to create a 32 km long Green Corridor, which helped the special convoy of traffic police and ambulance crisscross through the congested road at over 100 km per hour to save the life of the teenager suffering from a failing heart at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute
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The donor was a 30-year-old IT professional who was declared brain dead. But the challenge lay in transporting the organ at the earliest so that the life-saving transplant could be carried.
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