Lifeline Express Mobile Clinic launched

Amidst much fan fare Impact’s Lifeline Express Mobile Clinic flagged off the District Health and Sanitation Week on Monday, November 13th in Thane.

Impact India is best known for the world’s first hospital train, the Lifeline Express. As on November 2006 the train has completed 87 six-week projects having medically served 400,000 persons in the remote, rural interiors of India where medical facilities are scarce – all given totally free of cost with the ‘donated’ services of 70,000 Surgeons and medical personnel from all over India and abroad, together with a large number of volunteers.

As an extension of the of the Lifeline Express, which is not able to reach inaccessible areas in rural India, Impact has planned diagnostic and surgical vehicles to be stationed at selected places for short periods in the areas of our work. The first bus: a diagnostic unit, will be used for early identification and cure of disabilities in our Community Health Initiative (CHI) in rural Maharashtra.