CHENNAI: The heart of a two-year-old brain dead boy was airlifted from Bangalore to Chennai to be transplanted in a two-year-old boy at Fortis Malar Hospitals in Chennai.

The boy in Chennai, who has been suffering from a condition called dilated cardiomyopathy, was admitted to Fortis Malar Hospitals in a critical condition, with transplant being the only solution.

Luckily, help came from Bangalore, where the parents of another two-year-old boy, who was declared brain dead on Thursday, agreed to donate their child's organs to other children. The doctors at Manipal Hospitals and a team of doctors from Fortis Malar Hospital harvested the organs of the child.

Police created green corridors in Bangalore and Chennai to transport the child’s heart. The heart was airlifted from HAL airport to Chennai on a chartered flight after 1pm.

An ambulance was kept ready at the Chennai airport. The ambulance carrying the heart left the airport at 2.10pm. Eleven minutes later, it reached Fortis Malar Hospitals at Adyar, covering 12km and crossing 12 junctions.

Doctors at the hospital would complete the transplant procedure on Friday evening.

The parents of the brain dead boy work at a prominent IT company in Bangalore.

The boy’s liver was used for a child in Bangalore.

