A green corridor created for ferrying Shivakumara Swamy of Siddaganga Mutt from Tumkur to HAL Airport in Bengaluru on Friday 7th December 2018 (File Photo) | Photo Credit: BCCL

Kolkata: Co-ordinated efforts by the Kolkata police and traffic department played an instrumental role in saving the lives of five citizens on Wednesday. Following the death of a 20-year-old boy, three green corridors were created in the state capital of West Bengal by traffic police to facilitate the timely harvest of the deceased's organs.

After meeting with an accident on December 18, Kolaghat resident Sajal Kar was rushed to the CMRI hospital in Kolkata where he was declared brain dead on Wednesday. Kar's family agreed to donate the second year BCom student's organs prompting the city's traffic police department to create a green corridor ensuring the successful harvest of his vital organs including both his kidneys, liver, heart, skin, and eyes.

While one of Kar's kidneys was received by a patient at CMRI hospital, the other one was donated to a patient admitted to the Apollo Hospital.

Delhi: A green corridor was provided from Apollo Hospital to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute for transportation of a live heart. The distance of 3.6 km was covered in 3 minutes 28 seconds. pic.twitter.com/En2Zt2nnht — ANI (@ANI) November 11, 2018

Meanwhile, the deceased's heart was received by 40-year-old Habibur Rehman who underwent the transplant surgery at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital. A resident of Murshidabad, Rehman was admitted at CMCH for the last 15 to 20 days before being granted a new lease of life on Wednesday.

Sajal's liver was received by a 38-year-old Toto driver Joy Pratim Ghosh who had been suffering from liver cirrhosis. The procedure to replace Ghosh's liver with that of Kar's was carried out at SSKM in collaboration with Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (ROTTO) and CK Birla Hospitals. Kar's eyes were preserved at the Shankar Netralaya.

Telangana: A green corridor was provided by Hyderabad Traffic police from Yashoda Hospitals in Secunderabad to Care Hospitals in Nampally for live heart transplantation yesterday. The distance of 8 kms was covered in 7 minutes. — ANI (@ANI) November 2, 2018

A green corridor is a passage created by a city's police and traffic department for the speedy transport of organs which may otherwise become useless if not transplanted within a very short period of time. In the past, green corridors have successfully been created across several metro cities in India.

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