Green Corridor created to transport human organs from KGMU

Lucknow: A Green Corridor alert was on Thursday created from King George Medical University to Amausi airport in Lucknow, at 1000 hours, for transporting organs to save the life of patient in Delhi.

Traffic diversions were made on the request of KGMU doctors for the ambulance which was carrying the organs and had passed through Hazratganj, Katayipul, Arjunganj, Ahamamau and Shadipath areas.

According to the KGMU doctors, the liver was donated by the family of Sundar Singh, a resident of Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, who was declared brain-dead by the doctors after he met an accident.

Ambulance carrying Liver passes through the Green Corridor

Superintendent of Police (SP) traffic Habibul Hasan, thanked the city people for cooperating in letting ambulance pass with an uninterrupted traffic.

Earlier, a ‘Green Corridor’ was created on April 20, from KGMU to Lucknow airport to send a liver to AIIMS hospital Delhi.

What is Green Corridor:

• Green Corridor is a temporary route created to pass an ambulance without the traffic interruption.
• Created with the help of Hospital authorities and traffic police the route is made when an urgent medical facility is required by any patient.
• During this alert the traffic in the concerned area is either stopped or is regulated with the help of the traffic police officials to allow the pilot vehicle (ambulance) to reach destination in minimum time.
• The ambulance carrying such body organ or a critical patient needs skilled driver and technical staff along with an experienced doctor.

Reason to create a green corridor:

• This temporary route is created when an urgent medical facility is required by any patient or some body organ is required to be delivered to a hospital.
• The body organs are delicate and after taken out of a human body they do not function for long and are required to be transplanted in patient’s body within the minimum time to make them useful him.