Mumbai Traffic Police created the city’s fastest-ever green corridor to transport a donor heart for a life-saving transplant surgery at Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital. The organ was moved across a distance of nearly 32 kilometres in just 20 minutes using Atal Setu. 

The donor heart arrived at Navi Mumbai Airport and was immediately transported under a specially coordinated signal-free route to the south Mumbai hospital, where a patient was waiting for an emergency transplant procedure. Traffic officials described the operation as the fastest organ transportation movement recorded in Mumbai so far.

Senior officers said multiple traffic units were deployed across the route to ensure uninterrupted movement of the ambulance. Signals were synchronised in advance, CCTV monitoring teams tracked the vehicle in real time, and pilot vehicles cleared traffic seconds before the ambulance reached major junctions.

According to officials, the use of major infrastructure corridors such as Atal Setu, the Bandra-Worli Sea Link and coastal roads has significantly improved emergency organ transport timings by reducing congestion and avoiding pothole-prone routes.

Traffic police officials said green corridors are among the city’s most sensitive emergency operations because organs such as hearts have extremely limited preservation time outside the body. Every minute saved increases the chances of a successful transplant.

Officials added that Mumbai Traffic Police has assisted in transporting more than 20 organs in recent months, including hearts, lungs and livers, through specially managed emergency corridors across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. 

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