Second green corridor was created in the city to save life

Lucknow: Seventeen minutes is a small time. But it was the only time available to a farmer, Rakesh Kumar Singh, to survive. It separated death from life. And the police, traffic and non-traffic played a major role in providing a new life.

For the second time in a row on Thursday, green corridor was created between the airport here and the King George Medical University where doctors had made all possible arrangements to save his life. His lever and kidney needed to be changed and that too within a stipulated time.

Officials saw to it that these organs reached the airport in the shortest possible time. The time taken was only seventeen minutes to cover a distance of 20 kilometres which was one minute less than the time taken on the previous occasion.

The distance was covered in this small time because 100 policemen were posted at 35 points to restrict the movement of other vehicles. The ambulance which carried the organs travelled at a speed of more than 80 kilometres.