Lungs to Yellow Line, heart to Green; Bengaluru Metro facilitates organ transport across multiple lines
Doctors from the Sparsh Hospital transported a pair of lungs and a heart using the metro from Goraguntepalya.
In August this year, Bengaluru became the second city in the country to transport organs by the metro after a liver was taken from Whitefield to Rajarajeshwarinagar. The Bengaluru Metro is turning out to be the quickest mode of transport for organs requiring quick transplantation to patients. On Thursday, doctors from the Sparsh Hospital transported a pair of lungs and a heart using the metro from Goraguntepalya to two different parts of the city.
This marks the first instance when organs were transported across multiple lines of the metro. Previously, organs were transported – for the first time – along the Purple Line in August and a month later along the Green Line.
The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), in a statement, said that “the heart was boarded at Goraguntepalya Metro Station (YPI) at 09:34 hrs and reached Banashankari Metro Station (BSNK) at 10:15 hrs, covering 17 stations in just 41 minutes. The lungs were boarded at the same station at 10:05 hrs and reached Bommasandra Metro Station (BMSD) at 11:13 hrs, after an interchange at RV Road Station, covering 31 stations in 1 hour and 8 minutes.”
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