Hyderabad: The traffic police department in the city again came to a patient’s rescue and facilitated the transportation of a live organ in about seven minutes, which saved a precious life. Police on Thursday transported an ambulance that helped lungs from Care Hospital, Banjara Hills, to the Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Secunderabad.
Given the circumstances, the Hyderabad Traffic Police (HTP) arranged a short and fast route for the ambulance carrying lungs, which covered a distance of 9.3 kilometers which was covered in seven minutes. The medical team leaves Care Hospital at 09:17 and reaches KIMS at 09:24. Usually the traffic movement at that stage increases a lot and it is very heavy, especially because the rush hours then start.
The management of the Care Hospital and KIMS applauded the efforts of the Hyderabad police as they saved one valuable life. Prior to that, police had also facilitated the transport at least 13 times on various occasions in Hyderabad.
Apart from this, the authorities of Hyderabad Metro Rail earlier this year also helped transport a living heart between two hospitals in a specially arranged passenger-free metro train, which traveled 21 kilometers in less than 30 minutes.
The special green corridor was facilitated on February 2 by HMR authorities between Nagole and Jubilee Hills to move a living heart from Kamineni Hospitals in LB Nagar to Apollo Hospitals in Jubilee Hills for a critical patient undergoing an urgent transplant need. A team of Apollo hospitals began the journey with the organ and the train crossed 16 stations within 30 minutes.
Source: The Siasat Daily