The patient had been suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart becomes enlarged and cannot pump blood effectively.
In order to save the life of a 35-year-old serving soldier of the Indian Army, the Delhi Police created a green corridor on Monday to help safely transport a live heart from the Palam Airforce Airport to the Research & Referral Hospital in Delhi Cantonment area. The patient had been suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart becomes enlarged and cannot pump blood effectively.
"There was no option but to provide a transplant because to the soldier," said Brig T Chatterjee, Army R&R Hospital.
The patient, a soldier of 101 engineering regiment, had been waiting for this heart since July 12. On Monday, a patient was declared brain dead at PGI, Chandigarh. The donor's heart was then brought to Delhi through a special airforce donier jet aircraft.
The heart needs to be successfully replanted into the recipient within four hours of its retrieval from the donor. In this case, the heart was retrieved at PGI Chandigarh, at 10:00 hours and was into the operation theatre of RR Hospital, Delhi at 11:15 hours.
"In its continuous efforts to serve better the officers of the traffic unit of the Delhi Police have done it again by creating a Special Green Corridor to save the life of a serving soldier. The green corridor was provided on a route of 6 km to take the organ from the technical area Air Force Station, Palam to RR Hospital. The distance was covered in just 6 minutes which would have taken more than 30 minutes in a regular course," stated a release by the Joint Commissioner of Police.
This is the second heart transplant in the Indian Army. The first was also conducted this year by the same doctor, Col Dr Sameer Kumar.
In May this year, a 34-year-old Lance Naik had undergone a successful first heart transplant of the Indian Army at the RR Hospital in Delhi.
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The patient, a soldier of 101 engineering regiment. This is the second heart transplant in the Indian Army. The first was also conducted this year by the same doctor, Col Dr Sameer Kumar. In May this year, a 34-year-old Lance Naik had undergone a successful first heart transplant of the Indian Army at the RR Hospital in Delhi.
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