2-Year-Old’s Heart Travels in 4 Hours From Bengaluru to Chennai

Mangalore Today News Network

Bengaluru,Dec 19:  The heart of a two-year-old boy who died this morning at a hospital in Bengaluru has been flown on a special plane to Chennai, where doctors will attempt to transplant it into another young child. The heart was rushed from one city to another, all within the space of four hours.

 

The Bengaluru police had assigned 25 men to ensure that the ambulance carrying the heart got a signal-free ride from the hospital to the airport, a distance of two kilometres. From there, the heart was taken in an air ambulance to the Chennai airport. From there, the heart was rushed to Fortis Hospital in Chennai, through a special route configured by the Chennai Traffic Police to ensure there were no delays.

The recipient of the heart was another young boy, this one two years and nine months old. The first transplant procedure lasted for six hours from 1:30 PM to 7:30 PM.
 
The parents of the baby who died this morning were shattered, but agreed to donate his organs, said doctors.