Hyderabad (Telangana): A heart harvested from the donor reached from Yashoda Hospital in Malakpet to NIMS (Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences) in 12 minutes using a green corridor created by the city police on Wednesday. The ambulance with the heart started from Yashoda hospital at 1.44 pm and reached NIMS at 1.56 pm, covering a distance of 10 kilometres.
This is the first time NIMS received a heart from another hospital though heart transplants were carried out within the hospital earlier. The doctors have kept all the arrangements ready for the transplant when the ambulance reached the hospital.
The donor was involved in a road accident on Sept. 12 and suffered serious head injuries. Doctors declared him brain dead on Tuesday after he failed to respond to the treatment. The family members came forward to donate his heart. The recipient, a painter by profession, needed urgent heart transplantation. He applied for a cadaver transplant at the registry on Tuesday and he was fortunate to find a donor within a day.
Hospital sources at NIMS said that the heart transplantation surgery, which took five hours, was successful.
