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Maharashtra: Not just a local, this train is a real lifeline!
Updated On: 30 September, 2023 08:08 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
The LLE treats around 8000+ beneficiaries at each location for orthopaedic and facial deformities, blindness, hearing loss and dental problems, and breast, cervical and oral cancer
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The train with a difference, with expertise and empathy at its heart and compassion as compartments. Pic/Atul Kamble
Impact India Foundation’s Lifeline Express (LLE), a hospital inside a train or a hospital on train wheels, also known as Jeevan Rekha Express, made a halt at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) platform No. 13. The train, with a cheery, colourful exterior, is the world’s first multi-specialty hospital train on rails. The project was endorsed by the Indian government in 1991 to provide surgical and medical services to the disabled and needy population in the under-served rural areas and what are known as the ‘aspirational districts’ of India.
It has dual operation theatres (OTs) and houses five operating tables, three dental chairs, a gynaecology clinic and a pathology laboratory, along with accessories to conduct quality, specialised surgeries to restore sight and hearing, cleft lip and orthopaedic deformities, dental abnormalities and more.
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