Lifeline Express soon to double its capacity

The Lifeline Express, the world’s first hospital on a train, is undergoing a change! Come early July 2007, a brand new, five-coach Lifeline Express – with five Operating Tables - (under manufacture in the Indian Railways’ Integral Coach Factory in Tamilnadu State) will be ready to continue the many journeys of the Lifeline Express. The new train will double our capacity for medical services to the rural poor all over India. To date the Lifeline Express has completed 92 five-week, sponsored projects having medically served 450,000 persons in the remote, rural interiors of India where medical facilities are scarce – all given totally free of cost with the ‘donated’ services of 75,000 Surgeons and medical personnel from all over India and abroad, together with a large number of volunteers.

In his inspiring speech at the closing ceremony of 92nd Lifeline Express project at Palghar, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh expressed his desire to work in partnership with Impact and assured the complete support and cooperation of the State Government. He also announced that the Government has identified suitable land for the train to be stationed as a fully-equipped, permanent, hospital in Thane District, Maharashtra State, Western India, for all in need of Cleft, Ear, Eye and other surgeries in our Community Health Initiative (CHI) area.