A green corridor enabled a donor heart to travel nearly 20 kilometres from Hindon Airport in Ghaziabad to Fortis Hospital in Noida’s Sector 62 in 16 minutes on September 9, after traffic police regulated the route for the ambulance carrying the organ.
The heart, donated by a woman in Chandigarh, was flown to Hindon Airport by air ambulance before being transported by road to the hospital, where it was successfully transplanted into a 62-year-old patient, officials said.
Noida DCP (Traffic) Abhay Kumar Mishra said traffic authorities created a corridor between Ghaziabad and Sector 62 and coordinated movement along the route to minimise interruptions. “A green corridor spanning approximately 20 kilometres was set up from Ghaziabad to Noida Sector 62. At 2 pm, the heart was transported from Hindon Airport by ambulance and, travelling by road, reached Fortis Hospital in Sector 62 in 16 minutes,” Mishra said.
A green corridor temporarily coordinates traffic signals, police deployment and route clearance so that an ambulance carrying an organ or critically ill patient can move with as little delay as possible. The arrangement is particularly important in organ transplantation because donated organs have a limited period of viability outside the donor’s body.
The latest operation was part of a series of time-critical medical transfers coordinated by authorities in Noida, Ghaziabad, Delhi and neighbouring cities. In August last year, Noida traffic police created a six-kilometre corridor from the DND Flyway to Child PGI in Sector 30 for two premature twins. The ambulance covered the distance in about four minutes, officials said.
On June 2, 2025, Noida, Ghaziabad and Delhi authorities coordinated a 17-kilometre corridor from Yashoda Hospital to Fortis Escorts Hospital, allowing a live donor heart to be transported in 19 minutes. On January 8, 2025, Noida and Faridabad police created a 46.4-kilometre corridor between Amrita Hospital in Faridabad and Yatharth Hospital in Greater Noida for a kidney transfer. The journey took 24 minutes and 40 seconds.
The region has used such arrangements for organ emergencies for several years. On October 1, 2021, traffic police created a 14-kilometre corridor from the Delhi-Noida Chilla border to Jaypee Hospital in Sector 128, enabling an ambulance carrying a harvested organ to cover the stretch in 14 minutes. A separate corridor was also deployed that day between Sector 14-A and Jaypee Hospital for another organ-transplant-related emergency.
Doctors and healthcare professionals have said that the value of a green corridor extends beyond a short travel time. Its effectiveness depends on route planning, real-time communication between agencies, traffic regulation and prompt access to specialised medical care. The latest corridor was coordinated between Ghaziabad and Noida traffic authorities for the ambulance’s journey from Hindon Airport to Fortis Hospital in Sector 62.
