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Bangkok police run a donor heart from Don Mueang to hospital in 19 minutes
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Traffic police cleared a path through heavy rain on Thursday evening to move a donated heart from Don Mueang Airport to King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in 19 minutes, the 197th heart the unit has escorted across Bangkok.
Key facts
- Traffic police cleared a path through heavy rain on Thursday evening to move a donated heart from Don Mueang Airport to King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in 19 minutes, the 197th heart the unit has escorted across Bangkok.
- The radio room of the Royal Initiative Project traffic police took the call at 5.15pm on October 22, at the end of the working day and in the rain.
- On February 3 the same unit moved the 156th heart from Don Mueang to Thammasat University Hospital in 14 minutes, then the 157th from Saraburi to Ramathibodi over 109 kilometres in 55 minutes.
- That is about 40 hearts in eight and a half months.
Summary
The radio room of the Royal Initiative Project traffic police took the call at 5.15pm on October 22, at the end of the working day and in the rain.
The unit sent a rapid-response team, mechanics and traffic officers. They worked with local traffic police, the expressway police and staff from the Expressway Authority to hold the route open.