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Gujarat: Vande Bharat transports second donor heart to Ahmedabad in two days
['Kanchan Chaurasiya']
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Indian Railways has transported a donor heart by Vande Bharat Express for the second time in two days, carrying the organ from Ankleshwar to Ahmedabad in another time-sensitive mission to facilitate a heart transplant, officials said on Sunday.
The donor heart was transported aboard Train No.
20901 Mumbai Central–Gandhinagar Capital Vande Bharat Express on August 2 after being retrieved from Jayaben Modi Multi Speciality Hospital in Ankleshwar.
This operation comes just two days after another milestone, when a donor heart was transported from Surat to Ahmedabad on the same Vande Bharat service.
Railway and medical authorities had described that mission as India's first donor heart transport by train.