Medics dropped a donor heart on a city street in Mexico City moments before it was used for a life-saving transplant.
It all went down after a helicopter transporting the donor heart landed in a Mexico City street. A medic and doctor hopped from the plane and grabbed the blue cooler where the heart was being chilled on ice. The cooler then toppled over causing the heart, which was wrapped in plastic, to be spilled on the tarmac.
The medics scooped up the heart and repackaged it on the ice where it was then used for the complicated procedure.
The heart was flown 450 kilometers from Leon, Guanajuanto to the Centro Medico de Enfermedades Reumaticas in Mexico City.
The hospital director, Falcony Rodrigo Lopez, confirmed the transplant was a success.
A heart that has been deemed suitable for transplant can survive four to six hours on ice.
