Ziqitza Rajasthan -  Need of Green Corridor for Organ Transplant
                      Ziqitza Rajasthan : Need of Green Corridor for 
Organ Transplant
A green corridor is a special route cleared out for an 
ambulance that facilitates restored organs meant for 
transplant or to transfer an unwell patient to succeed in the 
destined hospital, airport or any destination. The Green 
Corridor system is a way to accelerate organ transplantation 
and save lives. Green corridor system is made by combined 
efforts of traffic police and local cops who ensure that organs 
being transported by ambulance for transplantation reach 
their destination in the shortest possible time ( the given 
target time to reach ). It requires a concentrated effort from 
transplant coordinators, local police, traffic police and 
sometimes airport staff for special cases. In this system, the 
transplant coordinators, local police, traffic police 
collaborate 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. 

By adopting this method, all the red signals on the way are 
dropped, thereby  speeding up the travel time by several 
minutes - minutes that are enough to save lives. This green 
corridor system saves the lives of many people, because 
through this method many organs are transferred at the 
right time and the availability of these particular organs on 
time makes the chances of organ transplant successful. Over 
the years, this concept of green corridors has made its way 
across the country from north to south and east to west 
part of India and has been successful in saving many lives 
through the delivery of organs from time to time. Also 
Studies show that the shorter the wait between harvest and 
transplanting, the better the odds are of the surgery being 
successful making early transportation more important. 

In India, the idea of Green Corridor has been in  use since 2014. 
Chennai was the first city to  consolidate this concept. To save the 
life of a 21-year-old man, an ambulance traveled 12kms in just 14 
minutes to the Fortis Malhar Hospitals in Adyar at Chennai 
Government General Hospital. Otherwise, the time taken for the 
trip would have been more than 45mins and Surat has become the 
first city in India to  consolidate a system of black and white 
notifications that ensures that no one is wasted time building a 
green corridor. 
Green corridors are mostly used for transporting heart and liver, 
which have the shortest preservation times of four to six and 12 to 
15 hours, respectively. Also the Green corridor makes sure that 
there is no organ wastage But the process of setting up a green 
corridor is complex, since it requires coordination of the transplant 
coordinators, local police, traffic police and sometimes airport 
staff.
Recently Ziqitza Healthcare Ltd created a green corridor for 
ambulance carrying organs for transplant and the given target 
time to reach Airport was within 8 minutes. The team of Ziqitza 
Healthcare Ltd received a call to transfer a severely seriously ill 
patient from Health Village Hospital to Biju Patnaik International 
Airport in a Green Corridor which was made by The 
Commissionerate Police. The distance from Health Village 
Hospital, Nayapalli to Biju Patnaik International Airport  is 6.5 Km 
and it takes around 20-25 mins. In the Green Corridor, the target 
time given to reach the airport was within 8 minutes but Ziqitza 
Ambulance driver Samir Kumar Mohanty took this responsibility 
and covered the route in a record time of 6 minutes 5 seconds. For 
his best performance, he was awarded “Kalpataru Das National 
Foundation Award” by MLA Pranab Kumar Balabantaray of BJD in 
the presence of District Councillor, Block Chairman and other 
distinguished members for the remarkable job done.