The Delhi Traffic Police on Tuesday created a 16-kilometre green corridor to successfully transport a liver from the Indira Gandhi International Airport to the Aakash Healthcare Super Speciality Hospital in Dwarka. Around thirty-five traffic personnel were involved in the creation of the green corridor to ensure that the organ was transported quickly and smoothly, without facing any hindrance in its way, police officials reported on Wednesday.
The liver was brought from Chandigarh and arrived at the IGI Airport at around 1:30 pm on March 19. Responding to the urgent need, the Delhi Police created the corridor, leading the ambulance carrying the organ to reach the hospital in Dwarka sector 3 within18 minutes, a senior police official stated.
The police also stated that the hospital had directed them to handle the organ carefully as it was delicate. They were also told that the organ would be transported in a sealed box weighing 15 kilograms, PTI reported. Additionally, the hospital also asked the police to ensure the organ was not exposed to X-rays during the time it was transported.
Another police officer stated that they have provided eight other green corridors and 24 similar passages so far this year.
What is a green corridor?
A green corridor is a cleared-out special road route that is primarily created to transport patients and organs including hearts, livers, and lungs. It demarcates a special route for ambulances, reducing the travel time by 60-70%. It is managed in such a way that the traffic signals that fall in the route of the hospital where the organ has to be transported, are all green. This speeds up the ambulance's traveling by several minutes which is crucial to save someone's life.
In India, the concept of green corridors has been used since 2014. Chennai was the first city to create a green corridor, where the life of a 21-year-old was saved after the organ was transported in just 14 minutes.