New Delhi, June 1 -- In a remarkable feat of medical coordination and swift response, a live heart was successfully transported from Yashoda Hospital, Ghaziabad, to Fortis Escorts Hospital in Delhi's Okhla Road, in just 19 minutes on Sunday, thanks to a specially created green corridor.

Covering a distance of 17 kilometres, the heart was transported between 11:40 AM and 11:59 AM, enabling a life-saving transplant for a critically ill patient.

The recipient, a 49-year-old man, had been suffering from Ischemic Cardiomyopathy -- a condition in which the heart's pumping capacity is severely compromised due to damage to the heart muscles, often caused by restricted blood flow from coronary artery disease. He had been on the National Organ an...