LIFELINE EXPRESS

About:

• The Lifeline Express is also known as "Hospital on Wheels".
  
  
• The Indian Railways, in partnership with Impact India Foundation, had launched the Lifeline Express - the worlds first hospital on wheels - in 1991 from CSMT to provide free of cost medical care to the poor living in remote corners of the country.
  
  
• The seven coaches of the Lifeline Express have advanced operation theatres, a pathology lab, a mammography unit, a gynaecology examination room, a dental unit, a pharmacy, consultation cubicles and X-Ray unit, among others.
  
  
• Till now, The Lifeline Express has travelled across 19 states, covering 201 rural locations in 138 districts providing medical treatment to 12.32 lakh patients.