Indian Railways carried out a live donor heart from Surat to Ahmedabad via train and saved a life.
India's first Vande Bharat Express moved a live donor heart to a man with an end-stage heart disease on Sunday that underwent the complex surgery with an emergency operation at U N Mehta Heart and Research Institute, Ahmedabad.
When air transport wasn't an option due to bad weather in Surat, emergency forces rushed the live heart in a trained network via Vande Bharat express for successful transplantation.
The heart was transferred from Ahmedabad railway station and Green corridor created with help of Ahmedabad Police to make sure swift transit and the whole mission planned in real-time with Railway employees, the RPF, and Medical teams.
Describing this as a major accomplishment and first in Indian railways, the officials stressed the increasing role of this network in moving urgent medical items such as that of the organ in desperate circumstances.