An 18-year-old newspaper vendor in Indore, Deepak Dhaketa, died of a road accident on Wednesday. He was declared brought brain dead by doctors at Indore’s Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences (SAIMS) on Wednesday evening. The doctors knew that Deepak's untimely death had left his family shattered, but they also knew that his organs could still save four critically-ill patients. By Thursday noon, four organ transplants had been carried out His two kidneys were transplanted into two patients within the same city - at Indore's SAIMS and Choithram Hospital and Research Centre. Deepak's heart and liver, on the other hand, were flown to Delhi.

"The heart reached IGI airport around 1.15pm and was transported to Medanta Medicity in Gurgaon, covering about 18km within 16 minutes. The liver arrived at 1.58pm and it was transferred to ILBS, 11.4km away, in 15 minutes," Sharad Aggarwal, joint commissioner, Delhi traffic, told TOI.