Namma Metro facilitated the transportation of a pair of lungs for transplant from Sparsh Hospital in Yeshwantpur in northwest Bengaluru to Narayana Health City in Bommasandra on the southeastern fringes of the city.

To save critical time, the transplant team took the metro train from Goraguntepalya Metro Station on Green Line till RV Road and from there boarded the newly launched Yellow Line to Bommasandra.

The 30–33 kilometre journey took 61 minutes despite the weekday rush hour, according to the hospital.

The transplantation team of five members and a BMRCL home guard boarded the metro at 10 am and reached Bommasandra around 11 am and the transplantation procedure was taken up immediately, said the hospital.

Speaking to DH, a BMRCL spokesperson said, the staff of BMRCL stayed with th

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