Updated On: 29 September, 2020 03:39 PM IST | Navi Mumbai | A correspondent
The heart was harvested from a 31-year-old cadaver donor and transported through green corridor on September 19. It was transported from Lower Parel to Belapur, a distance of 45 kms, in just 25 minutes

Dadasaheb Patil (Centre) with Dr Sanjeev Jadhav, consultant, heart and lung transplant surgeon (Right)
A 56-year-old man successfully underwent a heart transplant surgery at Apollo Hospitals in Navi Mumbai. The heart was harvested from a 31-year-old cadaver donor and transported through green corridor on September 19. It was transported from Lower Parel to Belapur, a distance of 45 kms, in just 25 minutes.
Apollo’s specialist heart transplant team, led by Dr Sanjeev Jadhav, consultant, heart and lung transplant surgeon, successfully performed the surgery on Dadasaheb Patil, a resident of Sangli in Maharashtra.