Recently son of a doctor couple met with a road accident and was declared brain dead. At this point of time the parents consented for the donation of organs of their beloved son. Eyes, Kidney, Liver and Heart were all transplanted to different recipients. The story of how the heart was carried from one hospital where the donaor was located and the other where the recipient was situated, read it might sound like a cinema action but it has happened for real.
(News item published in Deccan chronicle is reprduced here)
It was a journey with a difference for police driver Mohan on Tuesday afternoon. He was summoned to drive a police car to pilot the ambu lance that was carrying the heart of 15-year-old Hithendran, who was killed in a bike accident. The heart was being taken to Frontier Life hospital in JJ Nagar from Apollo specialty hospitals, Teynampet to transplant it into a 10-year–old girl. The doctors after harvesting the heart (it has to be transplanted within a very short span) got into Mohan’s pilot car, instead of the ambulance. Then it became the duty of the constable to make sure that the heart, kept in a special icebox in the car, reached its destination as fast as possible. With assistant commissioner, Mr Manoharan on his side, Mohan drove the car, with its siren bleating, out of the Apollo at around 2.50 pm. Senior traffic police officials had already made arrangement to switch off traffic signals en route and clear the roads so that the heart convoy was not stopped anywhere.
The race against time through the busy V N Road, Madley Road, the new flyover at T Nagar, Loyola College, Nelson Manickam Road, Anna Arch and Anna Nagar round tana to reach Frontline took just ten minutes — probably a city record. As a tense Mohan drove his vehicle at more than 100 kph, the assistant commissioner kept radioing instructions to his men on the road to clear the traffic.
As soon as the mission was completed, Mr Sunil Kumar, additional commissioner, traffic, congratulated his team. On Wednesday Mr Mohan was given a cash award by Mr R. Sekhar, commissioner and Mr Sunil Kumar. ++++
Kudos to the entire team who participated in this, long live such thoughts and deeds.
(News item published in Deccan chronicle is reprduced here)
It was a journey with a difference for police driver Mohan on Tuesday afternoon. He was summoned to drive a police car to pilot the ambu lance that was carrying the heart of 15-year-old Hithendran, who was killed in a bike accident. The heart was being taken to Frontier Life hospital in JJ Nagar from Apollo specialty hospitals, Teynampet to transplant it into a 10-year–old girl. The doctors after harvesting the heart (it has to be transplanted within a very short span) got into Mohan’s pilot car, instead of the ambulance. Then it became the duty of the constable to make sure that the heart, kept in a special icebox in the car, reached its destination as fast as possible. With assistant commissioner, Mr Manoharan on his side, Mohan drove the car, with its siren bleating, out of the Apollo at around 2.50 pm. Senior traffic police officials had already made arrangement to switch off traffic signals en route and clear the roads so that the heart convoy was not stopped anywhere.
The race against time through the busy V N Road, Madley Road, the new flyover at T Nagar, Loyola College, Nelson Manickam Road, Anna Arch and Anna Nagar round tana to reach Frontline took just ten minutes — probably a city record. As a tense Mohan drove his vehicle at more than 100 kph, the assistant commissioner kept radioing instructions to his men on the road to clear the traffic.
As soon as the mission was completed, Mr Sunil Kumar, additional commissioner, traffic, congratulated his team. On Wednesday Mr Mohan was given a cash award by Mr R. Sekhar, commissioner and Mr Sunil Kumar. ++++
Kudos to the entire team who participated in this, long live such thoughts and deeds.
