<p class="bodytext">The traffic police created a green corridor from Yeshwantpur to Whitefield on Wednesday morning rush hour to facilitate the transport of a heart for transplant. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The heart of a 21-year-old man from Raichur was retrieved after he was declared brain-dead by doctors at the Sparsh Hospital.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thammanna H was riding pillion on the Raichur-Hyderabad highway when the vehicle crashed on June 16. </p>.<p class="bodytext">He suffered a head injury and was rushed to a nearby hospital before being shifted to Hyderabad. He was later referred to Sparsh Hospital where a team of doctors declared him brain-dead. </p>.<p class="bodytext">His family consented to organ donation after being counselled.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His father Hanumantharayappa, a farmer, said he knew about organ donation as he had seen it on television.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“My son had completed ITI and was working in Raichur. It is unfortunate he met with an accident and suffered a head injury,” he<br />added. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Doctors operated on Thammanna to harvest some of the vital organs, including the heart, lungs, kidneys and corneas. Since the heart has to be transplanted within a few hours, it was transported to Vydehi Hospital where a 52-year-old woman underwent the heart transplant.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The other organs were transplanted into other needy recipients. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Jeevasarthakathe, the government agency, counselled the family and co-ordinated the transplantation. </p>
<p class="bodytext">The traffic police created a green corridor from Yeshwantpur to Whitefield on Wednesday morning rush hour to facilitate the transport of a heart for transplant. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The heart of a 21-year-old man from Raichur was retrieved after he was declared brain-dead by doctors at the Sparsh Hospital.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thammanna H was riding pillion on the Raichur-Hyderabad highway when the vehicle crashed on June 16. </p>.<p class="bodytext">He suffered a head injury and was rushed to a nearby hospital before being shifted to Hyderabad. He was later referred to Sparsh Hospital where a team of doctors declared him brain-dead. </p>.<p class="bodytext">His family consented to organ donation after being counselled.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His father Hanumantharayappa, a farmer, said he knew about organ donation as he had seen it on television.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“My son had completed ITI and was working in Raichur. It is unfortunate he met with an accident and suffered a head injury,” he<br />added. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Doctors operated on Thammanna to harvest some of the vital organs, including the heart, lungs, kidneys and corneas. Since the heart has to be transplanted within a few hours, it was transported to Vydehi Hospital where a 52-year-old woman underwent the heart transplant.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The other organs were transplanted into other needy recipients. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Jeevasarthakathe, the government agency, counselled the family and co-ordinated the transplantation. </p>