New Delhi, Sept. 4 -- In a remarkable feat of medical expertise and coordination, doctors at a private hospital in Delhi successfully performed a life-saving heart transplant surgery on a 39-year-old man from Meerut, after a donor heart was transported from Chandigarh to New Delhi in just 1 hour and 55 minutes through multiple green corridors.

The patient, a known case of dilated cardiomyopathy with severe mitral valve leakage, had been struggling with worsening breathing difficulties for the past four years. In the last six months alone, he required intensive care unit (ICU) treatment twice in Meerut. When his condition deteriorated further in August, he was shifted to a Private hospital in Delhi.

"Initially stabilised in the ICU with ...