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For the archetypal time, the Chennai Metro Rail turned into a “green corridor” connected Saturday and helped transport a brace of lungs harvested from a deceased donor successful Bengaluru to Apollo Hospitals connected Greams Road for transplantation. In 21 minutes, the lungs were transported from the Meenambakkam Metro to AG-DMS Metro, covering 10.82 km crossed 7 stations.
Airport sources said a brace of lungs and a bosom were brought done aerial ambulance from Bengaluru, and landed astatine the airdrome astatine 1.52 p.m. Subsequently, a six-member squad carried the lungs successful a conveyance via the VIP gross (located successful Meenambakkam) to the Meenambakkam Metro astatine 2.04 p.m. and boarded the bid astatine 2.07 p.m. At 2.28 p.m., they reached the AG-DMS Metro and near successful an ambulance to Apollo Hospitals. Simultaneously, a “green corridor” from the airdrome was created connected the road, and the bosom was transported to MGM Healthcare successful an ambulance.
According to officials of the Chennai Metro Rail Limited, they made definite the process was smooth. “The squad travelled with the bundle on with the different passengers. Being a weekend, determination were less radical connected the train. We coordinated successful some the root and destination stations,” a unit subordinate said.
In the past, determination person been a fewer instances of the Hyderabad and Bengaluru Metro Rail systems assisting with organ transportation.
In 2021, Hyderabad Metro helped determination a bosom done a peculiar bid from Nagole to Jubilee Hills, crossing a region of 21 km successful little than 30 minutes. This January, it transported a donor bosom from LB Nagar’s Kamineni Hospitals to Gleneagles Global Hospital, Lakdikapul, and touched 13 kilometres successful 13 minutes.
Seven months later, successful August, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation transported a liver for transplant from Vydehi Hospital successful Whitefield to Sparsh Hospital successful Rajarajeshwari Nagar, covering 31 km wrong an hour. Once again successful September, BMRC facilitated the shifting of a bosom from Yeshwanthpur to South End Circle Metro successful 20 minutes.
It is to beryllium noted that successful 2023 the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs made an amendment to the Metro Railways (Carriage and Ticket) Rules, 2014. The regularisation said: “Provided that a idiosyncratic is duly authorised successful this behalf by a infirmary registered nether the Transplantation of Purpose Organs and Tissues Act, 1994, whitethorn instrumentality along, quality organs oregon insubstantial oregon both, for the intent of organ oregon insubstantial transplantation.”
