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Indore: 'Green corridor' created for speedy delivery of organs

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Press Trust of India Indore
Last Updated : Jan 03 2016 | 6:13 PM IST
Heart and liver of a 20-year-old brain dead woman were today rushed in less than 10 minutes via 'green corridor' for organ transplantation from a busy city area to the airport for separate destinations.
"The 'green corridors' were created twice in the city with the help of the traffic police and district administration, from a private hospital at Choithram crossing to the airport for transporting the two vital organs donated by the woman's family.
"The organs were transported in about 8 minutes to a distance of nearly 15 kms from the Choithram crossing to the airport in the hospital ambulance," an official of the Indore Society for Organ Donation said.
"The donated heart was then sent to Mumbai, while the liver was charted out to Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, Delhi to provide new lease of life to two persons," he added.
The donor, Sonia Chouhan, fell at her home yesterday and sustained a serious injury to her head, he said.
The doctors treating her declared her brain dead after which her family members agreed to donate her vital body parts on being motivated for the noble cause, the official said.

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Doctors at Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences
(ILBS), where the cadaveric liver transplant was carried out, said they got a call from Indore's Choitram Hospital on the night of January 1 about a possible cadaveric liver being available for retrieval.
A team from ILBS led by Dr Senthil left around 8 pm and reached Indore via Bhopal around 11 pm.
Organ retrieval began on the intervening of January 2-3 and liver along with other organs was harvested from the donor's body.
The doctors said that liver arrived at Delhi at 10:55 am this morning and was transported via the 'green corridor' from Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal-3 to ILBS in 11 minutes with dedicated traffic police support.
When the organ reached the hospital, the recipient patient was already taken to the operation theatre and surgery was conducted by Dr V Pamecha and his team of surgeons.
They said that this was the 20th case of cadaveric liver transplant at ILBS and the first deceased donation liver transplant in 2016.
The recipient was a 48-year old man from economically- weaker section who was suffering from a liver disease of unknown cause known as cryptogenic cirrhosis and has been under treatment here, doctors said, adding that the procedure was carried out without any cost to the patient.
Stressing on the need for greater organ donation, Dr Shiv Sarin, Director ILBS, congratulated the transplant team of the hospital for the first successful cadaveric transplant in the new year and thanked Dr Ajay Jain of Indore and Commissioner S Dubey for helping a poor man.

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First Published: Jan 03 2016 | 6:13 PM IST

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