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The traditional method of transporting organs by road is referred to as a 'green comidor. This
proces. entails police escorting an ambulance, so as to move around traffic usually a specific
traffic lane is chosen and all signals on the route stay green to ensure it reaches its destination in
the shortest possible time. A green corridor is route cleared and condoned off by the traffic
police to ensure the smooth and steady transportation of harvested organs on most occasions to
those awaiting a life-saving transplant. Organs tend to have a very short preservation time, as the
heart, which has to be harvested and transplanted within four hours or the lungs, which can be
preserved for only six hours once they are harvested.
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Answers
On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, answer any five of the following
questions by choosing the most appropriate options : (1×5=5)
(a) The first green corridor in India was created in :
(i) New Delhi
(ii) Chennai
(iii) Mumbai
(iv) Pune
(b) The organization which is framing a proposal to airlift cadaver organs is:
(i) Union Health Ministry
(ii) Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation
(iii) National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation
(iv) State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation
(c) The onerous task the author is talking about in para 1 is :
(i) finding organ donors.
(ii) finding doctors capable of performing transplants.
(iii) to carry the harvested organ in the shortest possible time.
(iv) to arrange the requisite facilities for the transplant.
(d) Most of the people do not go for the heart transplant as :
(i) it is very risky.
(ii) it is very painful.
(iii) it may cause death of the recipient.
(iv) the cost is prohibitive.
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(e) Most states refer organ transplant cases to big hospitals because
(i) they don’t have well-trained experts.
(ii) the patients don’t trust local doctors.
(iii) the state hospitals are very crowded.
(iv) they don’t have a pool of harvested organs.
(f) Heart retrieved from a body is alive only for ______ hours.
(i) two
(ii) three
(iii) four
(iv) five
Sol. (a) (ii) Chennai
(b) (iii) National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation
(c) (iii) to carry the harvested organ in the shortest possible time.
(d) (iv) the cost is prohibitive.
(e) (i) they don’t have well-trained experts.
(f) (iii) four
1.2 Answer the following questions briefly : (1×5=5)
(a) What is a ‘green corridor’?
(b) Why is smooth transportation of the retrieved organ necessary?
(c) What opinion do you form of Chennai Police with regard to the transportation of a harvested
heart?
(d) What does the author mean by ‘a few golden hours’?
(e) How much does a heart transplant cost a patient in a private hospital?
Sol. (a) ‘Green corridor’ is a traditional method of transporting organs by road.
(b) Because they tend to have a very short preservation time.
(c) Chennai Police took the initiative of creating a Green Corridor to enable steady transport of
harvested organs which reflects their efficiency.
(d) By ‘a few golden hours’ author means the crucial time available for transplant of the organ
after harvesting it.
(e) 15–20 lakhs
1.3 Pick out the words from the passage which mean the same as the following : (1×2=2)
(a) save (para 1)
(b) achieved / carried out (para 3)
Sol. (a) Preserve
(b) Accomplished
Explanation:
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