Apollo Hospitals, Seshadripuram collaborates with Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation

Apollo Hospitals, Seshadripuram, in collaboration with Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) and state health authority, Jeeva Sarthakathe (JSK), successfully facilitated the transportation of a donated human heart through the Metro rail network - finding a novel way to beat Bengaluru’s traffic woes.

The heart, harvested from a donor at a private hospital in Yeshwanthpur, was required to be transported swiftly to Apollo Hospitals, Seshadripuram, for a critical heart transplant surgery. To ensure minimal transit time and avoid traffic delays, the heart was shifted using the routine Metro corridor from Goraguntepalya Metro Station to Mantri Square Metro Station, without causing inconvenience to passengers.

With seamless coordination between BMRCL, the city police, and the hospital’s transplant team, the heart was moved in just 18 minutes, well within the medically critical ‘golden window.’ This life-saving effort has given a new lease of life to a 33-year-old doctor from Assam, who had been suffering from heart failure since long.