Trichy :

Traffic on arterial roads in the city came to a halt on Wednesday morning to give way to a heart harvested from a 40-year-old brain dead woman to reach the Trichy international airport from a private hospital near Chathiram bus stand within the golden hour.

The city police created a green corridor on the entire route to ensure quick transit of the organ. The organ was transported from the hospital to the airport within a span of 10 minutes.

The organs harvested from P Lourdhu Mary, 40, who was declared brain dead on Tuesday following a road accident here on March 2, gave a new lease of life to patients in Trichy and Chennai.

Doctors at the Frontline Hospital here performed surgery and harvested the heart, pair of eyes and kidneys from Mary early on Wednesday morning.

While the kidneys were transplanted to a patient admitted in Frontline Hospital and a patient at a private hospital here, the pair of eyes was sent to a private eye hospital in the city.

However, the heart was required for a patient in Frontier Lifeline Hospital in Chennai as per waiting list of the Tamil Nadu Organ Sharing Registry.

“The heart should be transplanted within four hours of harvesting. Frontier Lifeline Hospital made arrangements to take the heart by a flight. But we had to bring the organ to the airport through the congested traffic in the city on time. So, we sought the help of the police who made traffic diversion en route to the airport,” said Dr S Radhakrishnan, general surgeon at Frontline Hospital.

On receiving the request, city police commissioner Sanjay Mathur ordered to create a green corridor from the hospital near Chathiram bus stand to the airport via Karur Bypass Road, Shastri Road, Uzhavar Santhai, Bharathidasan Salai, Head Post Office and TVS Tollgate.

“Traffic signals en route to the airport from the hospital were closed until the ambulance with the organ reached the airport within 10 minutes,” said S Venkataraman, assistant commissioner of police, intelligence section, Trichy.

Many lauded P Narian Prabhakaran, son of Mary for his timely decision to donate the organs of his mother.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Trichy / TNN / March 05th, 2015