Green corridor

Green corridor

Subject: Health and infrastructure

Context: A truck with the first batch of Serum Institute of India’s Covishield vaccine pashed from IGI airport in Delhi to the Rajiv Gandhi super specialty hospital.

Concept:

• A special road route managed in a way such that all the traffic signals in the route determined for medical emergencies or organ transplantation, are green and controlled manually.
• It seeks to ensure an unrestricted movement of vehicle and cut the traffic time by 60-70% in the process.
• It needs an active collaboration between transplant coordinators, local police, traffic police and airport staff etc.
• Primarily it seeks to ensure no organ is wasted as organ for transplantation have very short preservation time.
• In India it was adopted in 2014 and Chennai was the first city to adopt it.
• The requisite regulatory procedures and coordination was carried out with National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) for the green corridor.
• NOTTO is a National level organization set up under Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, located in New Delhi.