Amid Wednesday rain chaos, authorities in three cities rush to transport live heart

IN a race against the clock, a live human heart was transported all the way from Kolkata to Gurugram via Delhi, while chaotic scenes unfolded across the city following the heavy rains that lashed the national capital; disrupting flight operations, clogging roads and ushering traffic jams that streched for kilometers.

- ASHISH SRIVASTAVA

Amid the widespread disorder, as the entire Delhi-NCR staggered to a standstill in the "intense rains" dexcribed by the IMD, a heart was flown from Kolkata to the Delhi Airport; from where, it was then brought to the Fortis Hospital in Gurugram.

Supported by nearly 100 police personnel across the three cities, the entire process; collecting the heart from a Kolkata hospital, bringing it to the city's airport, flying it to Delhi, and then transporting the organ to the hospital took a mere four hours.