Overview
- The donor heart moved on April 9 through a traffic-cleared green corridor from PGIMS Rohtak to Fortis Escorts, Okhla, covering 98 km in 85 minutes.
- Fortis Escorts surgeons transplanted the heart into a 26-year-old with advanced dilated cardiomyopathy, and the patient remains under close ICU monitoring on ventilator support.
- Police in Delhi and Rohtak coordinated signal-free passage from 2:50 pm to 4:15 pm to keep the organ within its critical viability window.
- The donor was a 37-year-old declared brain dead after an intracranial haemorrhage, and the family’s consent enabled retrieval to begin at 2:20 pm.
- Other organs were allocated per protocol, with lungs to Artemis Gurugram, liver and pancreas to AIIMS New Delhi, and kidneys and corneas retained at PGIMS Rohtak, illustrating how green corridors help multi-organ transplants succeed under tight time limits.