Green Corridor created in Pune and Mumbai to aid heart transplant

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On any given day, if you were to notice the traffic during peak hours in the city, you would find that it is something that requires a great amount of patience to wade through. For a biker, there is some consolation of zipping and zig-zagging one’s way to the front but for the four wheelers and three wheelers it is a different story altogether - imagine an ambulance in that melee. It’s a harrowing experience to say the least. 

Recently, for the first time in Maharashtra, a green corridor was created to assist the uninterrupted travel of an ambulance. For those of you who are unaware of the terms 'green corridor' here’s a brief: A green corridor is usually created for medical emergencies. This would mean that when an ambulance is passing through any stretch in the city, the road will be cleared of vehicular traffic to ensure that quick medical aid is provided to the patient at the earliest.

In an example of perfect coordination, cooperation and traffic management, green corridors created in Pune and Mumbai helped a 22-year-old patient in Mulund's Fortis hospital receive a heart from a brain-dead woman in Pune's Jehangir hospital within 60 minutes. The cadaver was transported by air from Pune and from the Mumbai Santa Cruz airport, some 150 police personnel manned the 15 signals between the Santa Cruz airport and Fortis, ensuring that the harvested heart reached the hospital in 18 minutes (normally the 20km distance takes at least an hour to cover). Similarly, in Pune, some 25 police personnel ensured that the heart reached the Pune airport from Jehangir Hospital in seven minutes flat (normally it takes 40-45 minutes.

The heart patient is now recovering in the Mumbai hospital. 

Previously, Chennai traffic operations had created a green corridor through their city for the same purpose and now even in Delhi a similar operation was carried out. This idea can only be executed through the cooperation of the public and the traffic constables in any city. 

Many patients have died on their way to the hospitals because of being stuck in traffic in the ambulance. Often there are insensitive drivers who use the route cleared for the ambulance and try to get ahead in traffic creating further chaos and in some cases refuse to give way to the van despite the urgency of the situation. We would request all our readers to be sensitive to such issues and cooperate with traffic constables in such cases or even go out of their way to create a way for ambulances to pass through. 

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