23-km green corridor gives BSF constable awaiting liver transplant new lease of life
India TV NewsA 42-year-old BSF constable awaiting a liver transplant got a new lease of life on Friday when the organ reached him after being harvested from a 70-year-old donor and transported through a stretch of 23 km in just 22 minutes, a city-based hospital said. The liver was donated by a 70-year-old male patient who had suffered intracranial haemorrhage, resulting in brain death, BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital said in a statement, highlighting that the authorities facilitated the safe passage of the organ. Doctors at BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital performed the life-saving surgery, giving the 42-year-old male patient from Gwalior a new lease of life, it added. Dr Abhideep Chaudhary, senior director and HOD, HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation, BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital, who led the team of surgeons said, “We are happy to report that in a surgery that lasted almost seven hours, we managed to give a new lease of life to a 42-year-old male BSF constable, who had been waiting for the transplant for long."
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