World’s First Hospital on Wheels ‘Lifeline Express’
Lifeline Express, the world’s first hospital on a train, have been inaugurated on 9.4.2014 by Shri Sunil Kumar Sood, General Manager, Central Railway at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai
This train is run by Impact India Foundation (IIF), an International Initiative against Avoidable Disablement in coordination with Indian Railways.
IIF is soon to launch a Cancer Detection and Control programme through its Lifeline Express. This exemplary project has since 1991 provided medical services to nearly 900,000 disabled poor in remote rural locations across India. The services include surgeries for the restoration of sight, movement, hearing, correction of facial deformities and, prevention and treatment of epilepsy and dental problems – all free of cost, made possible by the ‘donated’ services of about 150,000 medical professionals from India and abroad.
This project has been replicated by four Lifeline Express trains in China, two in South Africa and Riverboat hospitals in Bangladesh and Cambodia. BBC’s film “The Magic Train of India”, shown worldwide, has attracted extensive media attention.
Impact India’s major preventive project is the Community Health Initiative (CHI) – a sustainable, replicable model in partnership with the Government covering two million Tribals in rural Maharashtra – has achieved 72% reduction in disability in the area.
Its focus, in line with the Government’s National Rural Health Mission and the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals – 2015, is on preventive health care generating community health for long-term impact on disability reduction.
The Lifeline Express is a recipient of numerous accolades including the United Nations’ Grand Award for Excellence in Public Service, and has been honoured by the Government of India Department of Posts by releasing a commemorative postage stamp
Issued Date: 12. 05. 2009
Denomination: 500 Paise
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