GREEN CORRIDOR SYSTEM

The green corridor system is one way to expedite organ transplants and save lives. In this system, the traffic department collaborates to transport a vital organ in less than 60-70% of the time that is usually taken to go from place A to place B.

While this system was first devised to handle medical emergencies, it is widely used for the purpose of transfer of donated organs.

A 'green corridor' is a special route that is managed in a way that all the traffic signals that come in the route of the hospital where an organ is harvested and the hospital where it is to be transplanted, are green and controlled manually.

Green corridor makes sure that there is no organ wastage. It is an extremely useful system of managing traffic that requires a very strong coordination among the traffic officials. When a heart is donated, it needs to be airlifted as it is a race against time.

In India, the concept of green corridor has been in use since 2014. Chennai was the first city to incorporate this concept. An ambulance carried a heart to save the life of a 21-year old and covered a distance of 12kms in just 14 minutes in Chennai Government General Hospital to Fortis Malhar Hospitals in Adyar.