State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation
Goa Medical College

Human organs such as the kidney, liver, heart, lungs etc. which have to be harvested and transplanted tend to have a very short preservation time.

Once a Human Organ donor's family gives their consent and the organs are matched to a recipient, medical professionals are faced with the onerous challenge of transporting organs while ensuring that the harvested organ reaches its destination in the shortest possible time.

A Green Corridor refers to a route that is demarcated and cleared out for an Ambulance carrying harvested organs. Green corridors are made by combined efforts of Traffic Police and Local Police, who ensure that a human organ being transported by Ambulance for transplantation reaches its destination in the shortest possible time.

The main objective of Green Corridor is to cover a long distance journey in the least possible time to carry the donated organ.to the patient in need. In a nut shell, it is to ensure that the in-transit human organ arrives at its destination in the shortest time possible.

1. On receipt of request for Green Corridor from appropriate authority maximum traffic staff shall be diverted on the designated route.
2. There should be end to end deployment of Traffic staff i.e. right from the Hospital to the destination.
3. All major junctions/intersections to be manned by Traffic Police.
4. All Traffic Signals on the route to be switched off and the junction/intersection to be manually regulated.
5. All traffic staff shall ensure that there is least movement of vehicles on the designated route.
6. Traffic to be diverted on alternate routes.
7. If required, vehicular traffic to be halted for few minutes.
8. Available Traffic staff or Local Police shall pilot the Ambulance.
9. The In charge Piloting the Ambulance shall remain in constant touch with SPCR and Superior Officers to inform the prevailing traffic (vehicular as well as pedestrian) situation.
10. Motorcycle Patrolling should also be maintained.
11. Cranes to be stationed at strategic locations.

Concerned In charge of Traffic Cells shall supervise the entire route arrangements in their jurisdiction under the supervision of respective DYSP (Traffic) and overall supervision of the SP (Traffic). Concerned PIs of Police Station should also deploy police personnel on the routes.

Superintendent of Police (Traffic) shall be the Nodal Officer for overall supervision and monitoring of 'Green Corridor'. Concerned Authority shall communicate with the Nodal Officer whenever activation of Green Corridor is requested.