Overview

• A medical team of one doctor and seven staff used ambulance and Namma Metro to move a donated liver 31 km from Whitefield to R.R. Nagar in under an hour on August 1.
• Bengaluru becomes the second Indian city to ferry an organ by metro, following Hyderabad’s green-corridor heart transfer in January 2025.
• The mission ran under MoHUA guidelines and BMRCL’s Joint Procedure Order, with green corridors and coordination among transit staff, hospitals, SOTTO Karnataka and security teams.
• The liver, donated by a 24-year-old accident victim, was transplanted into a young man with hepatitis-related liver failure after more than two months on the waiting list.
• Surgeons completed the overnight transplant around 3 a.m. on August 2 and report the patient is now stable in the ICU under post-operative care.