Two Wrocław Police patrol cars escorted an ambulance carrying a heart for a transplant surgery. The officers waited for the ambulance at city limits, in order to help it make it through busy streets straight to the University Clinical Hospital.
Heart transplantation coordinator at the University Clinical Hospital in Wrocław asked the chief of city's road police for help in escorting an ambulance which was on its way from Greater Poland. The ambulance was carrying a heart for a patient awaiting transplantation surgery.
"The part of the trip that went through expressways went without complications, but going across almost the whole city in rush hours would take really long. In this case time was of the essence, as human life was at stake. Officers experienced in escorting were dispatched to the situation, who led the medics from a spot where traffic jams occur very often, that is at the exit from the S5," said Wrocław Police spokesman Łukasz Dutkowiak.
The ambulance crew and the police both recorded the drive through busy city streets. The video shows how the officers were signalling other drivers what they should do. The trip from the city limits at Żmigrodzka Street up to the hospital at Borowska Street only took about 15 minutes.
The organ was quickly and safely delivered to the hospital, and already a few minutes later, it was at the operating table.
Źródło: TVN24 News in English, Wrocław Police
Źródło zdjęcia głównego: USK we Wrocławiu