Officials piloted the ambulance along the 18.5 km route from Terminal-2 to AIIMS. (Archive)
New Delhi:
Delhi Police have provided a fast-moving green corridor of more than 18 km for an ambulance carrying a living heart from the airport to the Institute of Indian Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, authorities said.
The heart was flown from Vadodara and it took 12 minutes to reach the hospital from Terminal-2 at the airport, they said.
According to the police, the AIIMS informed them that a human heart under a ventricular assist device is being transferred from Vadodara to Delhi for heart transplant surgery and that a fast-moving green corridor is required from the airport to AIIMS Hospital to avoid wasting time.
Traffic police jumped into action and immediately dismissed the officers and a green corridor was planned, a senior police officer said.
Traffic inspectors piloted the ambulance along the 18.5 km route from Terminal-2 to AIIMS. The vehicle took 12 minutes to reach its destination, which would otherwise take between 35 and 40 minutes, the officer added.
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