A 50-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh got a new lease of life today after undergoing a transplant surgery in New Delhi for a heart harvested from a youth less than half his age.
Private hospital authority said, the organ, retrieved from a 21-year-old brain dead patient at a hospital in Jaipur was flown to Delhi and then ferried to a private hospital in south Delhi through a green corridor.
It said, a green corridor was created which helped cover a distance of 21.3 km in around 30 minutes, primarily due to heavy festival rush on the route.
The recipient suffered from a condition called cardiac ischemia, a term given to heart problems caused by narrowed heart arteries which prevents adequate blood and oxygen reaching the muscles of the heart.