IndiGo transports heart from Vadodara to Mumbai, helps save patient’s life

Budget carrier IndiGo successfully transported a live organ last week, from Vadodara to Mumbai.

The airline revealed on Monday, adding that the operation was carried out well within the stipulated time limit of three hours for a live organ transfer.

“IndiGo, India’s largest carrier, successfully transferred a donated heart on flight 6E 6734 on June 7, 2022. Our team safely transferred the live heart from an operation theatre (OT) in Vadodara to the Global Hospitals OT in Mumbai in 2 hours 22 minutes,” the Gurugram-headquartered carrier noted in a statement.

Giving further details of the exercise, IndiGo said the team from Global Hospitals, Parel, operated in a Vadodara hospital to harvest the heart. “The organ was then transferred to Mumbai for a successful transport, thus saving a life,” the statement read.