Archive · 30 Oct 2025
Bengaluru Metro Facilitates Cross-Line Organ Transport for First Time
Imagine someone needs a new heart or lungs very quickly to get better.
Getting them across a big city can take a long time.
But in Bengaluru, the metro trains are helping!
Doctors used the metro to send a heart and lungs to different hospitals.
This is special because they used more than one metro line, like changing trains to get to a new place.
Before this, organs were sent on the metro too, but usually just on one line.
This fast metro travel helps save lives by getting the important organs to people much faster.
Bengaluru Metro was used to transport a pair of lungs and a heart for organ transplantation.
This marks the first time organs have been transported across multiple metro lines in the city.
Doctors from Sparsh Hospital utilized the metro for the transport on a Thursday.
The organs were sent from Goraguntepalya station to different locations in the city.
Bengaluru is the second Indian city to use metro for organ transport, following a liver transport in August.
- Who
- Doctors from Sparsh Hospital
- What
- Transported a pair of lungs and a heart using the metro across multiple lines
- When
- Thursday
- Where
- Bengaluru Metro, from Goraguntepalya to two different parts of the city
- Why
- To facilitate quick transplantation of organs to patients
- First Cross-Line Organ Transport
- Yes
- Organs Transported
- Lungs and Heart
- Origin Station
- Goraguntepalya
- Previous Organ Transport
- Liver in August (Whitefield to Rajarajeshwarinagar)
- Metro Lines Used
- Yellow Line (for lungs), Green Line (for heart)