MUMBAI: Suburban local services, Mumbai’s lifeline, considered the fasted mode of transport, was relied on to transfer a human organ from the satellite township of Kalyan to a private hospital in Parel.
This is the second case of a local train being used to ferry an organ. On February 16, 2019, a cadaver liver was taken in an icebox from Thane’s Jupiter Hospital to Global Hospital in Parel by train in 38 minutes.
A Central Railway official said station officials at Kalyan, Yeshwant Vhatkar, Anup Kumar Jain and chief ticket inspector Jaspal Rathod, received instructions from the headquarters at 8am that representatives of Global hospital will arrive from Dadar to collect the organ.
