It was a simple dream. All it wanted was that people should
not, through neglect or ignorance, become disabled or
crippled, and thus robbed of health, productivity and
joy, and that disabled persons especially in rural India
should have access to medical services wherever they be.
On
16th of July, 1991, this dream came true, when Impact
India's Lifeline Express, the world's first hospital
on a train, was launched.
Upto June 2009, over 550,000 disabled poor in rural
India have so far benefited from the remarkable train,
and other countries have come forward to start their
Lifeline Express on which major surgeries have been
performed to restore movement, hearing, sight and correction
of clefts with the help of the donated skills and services
of over 80,000 surgeons, to make this dream possible.
The internationally acclaimed Lifeline Express has become
a model for transfer of appropriate technology to other
countries to set up similar projects in China, Central
Africa and river boat hospitals in Bangladesh and Cambodia.
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