Delhi Police creates 'green corridor' for live heart passage from airport to hospital

The Delhi Traffic Police on Thursday played an instrumental role in providing a green corridor to a human heart after it received an emergent request from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in which it was informed that a human heart under VAD (Ventricular Assist Device) is being flown from Vadodara to Delhi for a heart transplant surgery by a flight at 2:30 pm at Terminal 2 of IGI airpot for which a fast-moving green corridor is required from T-2 to AIIMS to avoid wastage of time.Police swung into action and immediately deputed officers and a green corridor for the passage of ambulance carrying the 'live heart' were planned. The traffic inspectors piloted the ambulance throughout the route of 18.5 km from T-2 to AIIMS. It took 12 minutes for the heart to reach the destination, which would have otherwise taken anything between 35 and 40 minutes."This is the least anyone can do to save a precious life," said Joint CP, Traffic, Manish Kumar Agrawal.The heart transplant saved the life of 20-year-old critically ill youth at AIIMS."The boy's heart had stopped functioning...

Read More........ → December 26, 2020

Delhi virus cases dip but more states impose curbs

Agencies/ New Delhi recorded fewer than 1,000 coronavirus cases for the first time in seven weeks yesterday, even as more states imposed restrictions to halt the spread of the pandemic. India last week became the third country after the United States and Brazil to hit 1mn cases but many experts say that with testing rates low, the true number could be much higher. More than 28,000 people have died, with Maharashtra, home to Mumbai and its teeming slums, suffering the highest death toll followed by the national capital and Tamil Nadu. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government imposed one of the world’s strictest lockdowns in late March, but it has been steadily eased in recent months to lessen the devastating economic impact. But, independently from the federal government, individual states have been tightening restrictions as case numbers have soared – including in Bengaluru, Bihar and parts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. On Monday authorities in West Bengal, home to about 90mn people, imposed a strict lockdown two days a week beginning tomorrow. “The state government feels that...

Read More........ → July 22, 2020

Covid-positive journalist jumps to death from hospital

IANS/New Delhi: A 37-year-old journalist, who had tested positive for the coronavirus, jumped to death from the fourth floor of Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences yesterday, officials said. He died at 3.35pm, nearly one-and-a-half hour after jumping from the hospital’s trauma centre . The journalist was admitted to the Covid ward of the trauma centre on June 24 after he had tested positive for the virus. Hospital authorities said he was making significant progress and had planned to shift him to the general ward yesterday. According to an AIIMS statement, the journalist ran from Ward No 1 of the trauma centre to the fourth floor, broke the windowpane and jumped. The hospital said the attendants tried to stop him. “He was immediately moved to the trauma centre’s ICU where he was intubated, and resuscitation was tried, but unfortunately he succumbed to his injuries,” the statement said. The hospital also said that the journalist bouts of hallucination during the treatment and said it could have been because of a brain surgery he had in March. He is survived by his wife...

Read More........ → July 07, 2020