Green corridor for heart transplant in Navi Mumbai

TNN

Navi Mumbai, 07 Aug 2015: The Navi Mumbai Traffic department on Friday morning created a green corridor for heart transplant process for enabling to transport, sans traffic snarls, a live heart from MGM hospital in Vashi to reach the patient admitted at Fortis hospital in Mulund. 

 

The ambulance carrying the heart left the Vashi MGM hospital’s gate at 10.26 am. The Navi Mumbai traffic cops escorting the ambulance in jeeps and on motorcycles travelled non-stop along the Thane-Belapur road to reach till Airoli toll plaza from where the Mumbai traffic police team assisted them by providing additional escort to the ambulance. It enabled the ambulance to reach the Fortis hospital gate in 15 minutes clocking at 10.40 am, without facing any problem while navigating through the bylanes. 

 

The traffic units of Vashi, APMC, Mahape and Rabale co-ordinated on walkie talkies to ensure that the green corridor is maintained till the heart reached the Mulund hospital well within the scheduled time much before the expected 25 minutes time period. 

 

Escort route: Vashi MGM hospital-Shivaji Chowk-Arenja corner circle, sector-17,Vashi-Kopri signal, sector 19- along Thane-Belapur road-Mahape junction-Rabale junction-enter Airoli node-towards Airoli toll plaza-towards Mulund Fortis hospital. 

 

This the city’s second heart transplant in a week which will be underway in Fortis Hospital Mulund in a short while. The recipient of the donor heart is a 29 year old Kalamboli resident who has been the mulund hospital since Friday in a serious condition. 

 

While the donor of the heart has being identified as KN Kutty (63), resident of Trombay in BARC colony. For 20 yrs, he has worked with Tarapur BARC unit. He was the Senior scientific officer in BARC and retired now as he was Woking as faculty member as a Course coordinator for India association for radiation protection (specialist) for training purpose, informed his younger brother from Kerala, Murli Mohanan (53) His brother-in-law P. Ramachandran, who has come down from Kerala said, apart from heart, Kutty has even donated his other vital organs like eyes, kidneys, liver and pancreas. He had died in a road accident in Chembur on 2 August after a biker hit him fatally while he was crossing the road. He was the team member with former president Late Dr APJ Kalam, during the Pokhran experiment in 1998 when he was the scientific officer.