A heart harvested from a 42-year-old man in Mumbai was on Tuesday transported aerially through green corridors to a hospital in Delhi, covering a distance of about 1,100 km in over two-and-a-half hours, officials said. The heart is to be transplanted into a 53-year-old woman and an operation is currently underway, hospital authorities said.
“A green corridor was created between Mumbai and Delhi to carry a heart to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute (FEHI), Okhla,” a spokesperson of the hospital said.
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The recipient is suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart becomes enlarged and cannot pump blood effectively, the hospital said.