<p class="title">Several people got a new lease of life after receiving organs of a 56-year-old woman, including her heart that was sent to a hospital in south Delhi for transplant for a man, through a green corridor from Noida, officials said Monday.</p>.<p class="title">The woman, from Ghaziabad, had suffered a serious head injury in an accident and was declared brain dead despite best efforts by doctors at a private hospital in Noida Sunday, a senior official of the hospital said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"After getting the consent of the family, the harvested organs -- heart, liver, two kidneys and cornea -- were sent to multiple patients at different hospitals in Delhi-NCR. The heart was sent to Max Hospital, Saket and a green corridor were facilitated by traffic police authorities of both the cities," a senior official of Fortis Healthcare group said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The woman had died at Fortis Hospital in Noida.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The distance of 28 km between the two facilities was covered in just 21 minutes, a spokesperson of the hospital group said, adding that the heart reached Max Hospital around 10 pm.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"One of the kidneys of the woman and the liver were retained by Fortis Hospital, Noida. The second kidney was sent to Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh in north-west Delhi, but no green corridor was needed for that," the spokesperson added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The corneas were sent to Shroff Eye Centre, the hospital said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Authorities at Max Hospital said the recipient of the heart was a 28-year-old man, who had undergone an unsuccessful heart surgery two months ago.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The green corridor was facilitated last night and the surgery took two-and-a-half hours," a Max Hospital group spokesperson said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The patient had a swollen heart because of end-stage heart failure caused due to cardiomyopathy. The patient had earlier undergone open heart surgery to fix this condition which remained unsuccessful, the hospital said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The patient is stable and under observation", said Kewal Krishan, Director Heart Transplant and Ventricular Assist Devices, Principal Consultant- CTVS, Max Super Speciality Hospital Saket.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Hospital authorities at Fortis said the donations were done as per the norms of the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO). </p>
<p class="title">Several people got a new lease of life after receiving organs of a 56-year-old woman, including her heart that was sent to a hospital in south Delhi for transplant for a man, through a green corridor from Noida, officials said Monday.</p>.<p class="title">The woman, from Ghaziabad, had suffered a serious head injury in an accident and was declared brain dead despite best efforts by doctors at a private hospital in Noida Sunday, a senior official of the hospital said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"After getting the consent of the family, the harvested organs -- heart, liver, two kidneys and cornea -- were sent to multiple patients at different hospitals in Delhi-NCR. The heart was sent to Max Hospital, Saket and a green corridor were facilitated by traffic police authorities of both the cities," a senior official of Fortis Healthcare group said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The woman had died at Fortis Hospital in Noida.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The distance of 28 km between the two facilities was covered in just 21 minutes, a spokesperson of the hospital group said, adding that the heart reached Max Hospital around 10 pm.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"One of the kidneys of the woman and the liver were retained by Fortis Hospital, Noida. The second kidney was sent to Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh in north-west Delhi, but no green corridor was needed for that," the spokesperson added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The corneas were sent to Shroff Eye Centre, the hospital said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Authorities at Max Hospital said the recipient of the heart was a 28-year-old man, who had undergone an unsuccessful heart surgery two months ago.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The green corridor was facilitated last night and the surgery took two-and-a-half hours," a Max Hospital group spokesperson said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The patient had a swollen heart because of end-stage heart failure caused due to cardiomyopathy. The patient had earlier undergone open heart surgery to fix this condition which remained unsuccessful, the hospital said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The patient is stable and under observation", said Kewal Krishan, Director Heart Transplant and Ventricular Assist Devices, Principal Consultant- CTVS, Max Super Speciality Hospital Saket.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Hospital authorities at Fortis said the donations were done as per the norms of the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO). </p>