Green Corridor

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Green Corridor also known as Lanes of Hope have saved many lives by allowing the quick transportation of organs from one place to another!

 A green corridor refers to a route that is demarcated and cleared out for an ambulance carrying harvested organs. The objective is to ensure that the in-transit organ arrives at its destination in the shortest time possible.

            The requirement for something like this arises from the fact that organs generally have a short preservation time which means that there are only a few hours within which the entire process, right from harvesting and transportation to the final transplantation surgery, must be completed. There is an added urgency in cases related to the heart which has to be harvested and transplanted within 4 hours.
Additionally, studies suggest that the shorter the wait between harvest and transplant, the better the odds are of the surgery being successful. This makes quick transportation all the more important.
According to Dr Avnish K Seth, Director, Fortis Organ Retrieval and Transplant, Fortis Healthcare, the idea to set up green corridors for organ transportation came from VIP motorcades which are routinely created in the country to offer security and allow politicians and other VIPs to bypass traffic on heavily choked routes.
Incidentally, this practice is exactly what has helped the police quickly set up and manage green corridors, even during peak traffic hours, says Garima Bhatnagar, Joint Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Delhi.
“We always have staff on the ground, so within 2 to 3 hours, we quite easily manage to set up a green corridor,” she adds.
         A committee appointed by the state government to determine the standard operating procedure (SOP) for the human organ transplant will also work out the policy for the formation of a Green Corridor to facilitate organ donation.
The state government has formed a 16-member committee headed by health minister Dr Deepak Sawant to prepare the SOP under the Human Organ Transplant Act 1994.
        Organ donation is worth more than any other donation. Nothing is more valuable than saving a life.
         Thanks for reading!
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