Liver rushed for transplant on Mumbai local

Mumbai | Friday | 15th February, 2019

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After being treated in a local hospital, he was shifted to Jupiter where doctors found him brain dead in the emergency ward itself. "We created a separate lane for the ambulance to travel to the Thane railway station without any obstruction. Within four minutes, the Jupiter hospital team reached Global Hospital via Broadway junction, Parel TT and Parel bridge," said a traffic police officer. An alert MSF (Maharashtra Security Force) jawan posted outside the middle first-class compartment noticed the hospital team in the nick of time and alerted his superiors. MUMBAI: In the first such instance, a human organ was ferried on a Mumbai local train on Friday for transplant.A cadaver liver was carried in an ice box from Thane's Jupiter Hospital to Parel's Global Hospital, where the recipient was admitted, in 38 minutes during non-peak hours..