Two green corridors ensure organs are transported from Noida to Saket, Ghaziabad in 20 minutes
In her death, a 50-year-old gave a new lease of life to six patients. Gita Devi breathed her last at a private hospital in Noida on the night of May 1. Two green corridors facilitated the transportation of organs at a distance of 32 kms and 23 kms to reach waiting patients in time.
The heart was transported through a 32-km green corridor to Max Hospital in Saket in 20 minutes, while one kidney was taken to Max Hospital in Vaishali, Ghaziabad, through the second green corridor covering 23.6 kms in about 18 minutes.
“We requested the traffic police to set up two green corridors at 6.30 am, and the organs were harvested and transported within an hour,” said Dr Amit Devra, a senior transplant surgeon at Jaypee Hospital, Noida.
“The corneas were deposited in a Noida-based eye bank,” he said.
A resident of Baralu village in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, Gita Devi was admitted a week ago to Kailas Hospital in Noida for acute headaches. She was later rushed to an emergency ward of Jaypee Hospital after an undiagnosed case of high blood pressure led to bleeding in her brain.
“We tried a coiling procedure in the brain, but her bleeding was exacerbated. She was later declared brain dead. Her family was counselled to donate her organs. They agreed,” said Dr Devra.
Once the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) was intimated, transplant co-ordinators at Jaypee Hospital swung into action and asked the Noida Traffic Police to facilitate two green corridors.
The liver and one kidney were allotted to patients at Jaypee Hospital. The liver of the deceased has been transplanted to a 42-year-old man from Hapur, Uttar Pradesh while the kidney was transplanted in a 35-year-old man from Dwarka.
“She was always available for her village community. She facilitated many women empowerment projects such as arranging for sewing machines, and teaching children of the village,” said Shyam Prasad, her brother-in-law.
FIGURES SPEAK
- Organ donation rate in India is 0.5 per million
- Less than 12,000 kidney transplants are carried out annually in India
- Only 2,000 liver transplants are performed every year
Source: Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon
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