Milestones
2022

CHI Commences Anganwadi Pre-School Education Project In Mokhada

To promote physical, emotional, mental & cognitive development of children at Centres & at Home and Refurbish Anganwadis.


2021

LLE Completes 30 Years Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic. CHI - Track, Treat And Trace COVID-19 Project

Continues providing medical services to rural regions; revises Patients screening strategy going into villages for Outreach and adopts Government mandated norms for COVID-19 Prevention


2020

CHI Identifies Mokhada Block (100,000 Population) As The Neediest In Palghar District. 5-Year Janani Project Launched

To track pregnant women, ensure birth of healthy infants and follow up till age 2 years


2019

LLE Completes Its 200th Project At Nandurbar In Maharashtra

LLE’s two old coaches are replaced & the train is re-modelled to promote patient friendliness.


2017

CHI - IIF’s ICDS Systems Strengthening & Advocacy Project Launched

Addresses the problem of under-nutrition in Anganwadi children and refurbishes 100 Anganwadi Centres in Vikramgad, Jawhar & Mokhada Blocks of Palghar District.


2016

Two Additional Coaches Added To The LLE For Gynaecology Services & Oral, Breast & Cervical Cancer Detection.

First ever Oral Cancer surgery on the LLE


2014

LLE Completes 100,000 Surgeries & 1 Million Disabled Medically Served Across India


2012

CHI Addresses Malnutrition & Anaemia In Thane / Palghar Districts. Interventions For Pregnant Women, Children & Adolescents.

At-risk babies given Infant Warmers & referred to hospitals for further treatment


2009

National Postage Stamp Released By Government Of India Honouring The LLE . Dental Unit Added. Epilepsy Treatment Commences On The LLE:

Maharashtra Governor S C Jamir releases the National Postage Stamp depicting the LLE


2008

IIF Completes 25 Years.

The new LLE is on display at CST Mumbai


2007

A New Steel Bodied Five-Coach Train Donated By The Indian Railways Replaces The Old 4-Coach LLE. IIF Customises The New Train With Two State-Of-The-Art Operation Theatres And 5 Operating Tables

Sonia Gandhi inaugurates the new five-coach LLE at Rail Museum, New Delhi


2006

First Of 5 LLE Mobile Clinic Vans Launched To Provide Diagnostic Services To The Vision And Hearing Impaired Across Needy Regions Of Rural Maharashtra (200,000 Served).

Children screened for refractive errors on the LLEMC are given numbered sectacles


2005

Community Health Initiative Launched In Thane District, At The Invitation Of Government Of Maharashtra, Using Preventive Interventions To Improve Health Outcomes And Minimise Congenital Disability.

Child with Cleft Lip


2003

IIF Commissions Research To Identify Backward Rural Areas In Need Of Preventive Health Interventions Prior To The Launch Of Community Health Initiative


2001

The LLE Serves The Earthquake-Affected Victims At Bhuj & Anjar In Gujarat. Recognised By National Disaster Management Authority As A Disaster Resource.

Earthquake injured patients operated on the LLE at Anjar


2000

Wins EXPO Award In Hannover, Germany.

Gold Medal awarded for the World’s First Hospital Train


1999

Cleft Lip & Post Burn Contracture Surgeries Introduced On The LLE

Pre- operative (L) and Post-operative(R) pictures of Cleft Lip patients


1997

Malaria Clinics Launched To Test Cases And Create Awareness In Mumbai’s Slums, Participation By Mumbai’s St Xaviers College Microbiology & Sociology Students


1995

Health Homes Set Up In Deoria, Uttar Pradesh And Memari, West Bengal.

Serve as follow-up centre for patients operated on the LLE


1993

Wins The UN Grand Award & IPRA Golden World Award For Excellence In Public Service - LLE.

Repeat same pix as in Awards


1991

World’s First Hospital Multi-Specialty Train - Lifeline Express (Three Wooden Coaches) Launched To Conduct Cataract, ENT & Orthopaedic Surgeries.

Railway Minister George Fernandes greenlights the Lifeline Express programme


1989

Launch Of "Cure On Wheels" A Surgically Equipped Hospital Van, Served 20,000 Across Rural India

IIF’s 1st Mobile Hospital Van equipped to perform simple surgeries, dedicated to rural India


1986

"Bombay Against Disability" - 300,000 Children Fully Immunized Against Six Childhood Diseases. Digital Recording System Introduced By IIF.

Child being immunised against Polio


1984

‘A Polio-Free Madras’ Project – 300,000 Children Fully Immunized In A Mass Community Effort.

April 30, 1984. IIF’s Zelma Lazarus hands over first flask of 100,000 doses of Polio vaccine to Dr. H. V. Hande, Health Minister, Tamilnadu. Mr. A. H. Tobaccowala, Chairman of Voltas Ltd looks on. Voltas guaranteed the maintenance of the "cold chain": the transport of all vaccines donated by Save the Children Fund UK at critical temperature conditions.


1983

Impact India Foundation (IIF) Launched To Reduce Avoidable Disability

October 2, 1983 President of India Giani Zail Singh launches Impact India at Vigyan Bhavan, Delhi. With IIF Chairman A H Tobaccowala & Director, Zelma Lazarus


1982

IMPACT Calls On President Of India N Sanjiva Reddy Before Commencing A National Programme For The Reduction Of Avoidable Disablement.