Itanagar, Feb 12: Representatives from Impact India Foundation’s Lifeline Express, the world’s first hospital train today met the DC Itanagar Capital Region Komkar Dulom here at his Office chamber to discuss matters regarding conduct of the Lifeline Express Project in the state capital, which will be the first of its kind in Arunachal Pradesh.
DC while lauding the initiative said that DA is ready to extend all support and directed the DMO Dr Mandip Perme to work out the modalities for successful conduct of the project which is scheduled to commence from February 17 at the Naharlagun Railway Station. DC said the project would be immensely beneficial for the citizens especially those who can’t afford to pay for high expenses and availability of facilities like mammography will be particularly helpful for those who can’t afford to go out of the state for treatment.
Senior Operating Officer IIF Chandrakant Deshpande informed the train hospital was first launched on July 16, 1991 in partnership with the Indian Railways and since then has conducted 204 projects performing more than 1,46,046 surgeries and had benefited more than one million people who have been treated totally free of cost. Restoring sight to the blind, mobility to polio stricken, hearing to the deaf and smile to those affected with cleft lip besides epilepsy, dental treatment and cancer services are the services, among various others available in Lifeline Express which aims to reach out especially to the underserved rural and tribal areas who cannot reach a hospital for modern medical care.
Impact India Foundation is an international initiative against avoidable disablement, established through a United Nations General Assembly Resolution which was launched by GoI on October 2, 1983 coinciding with the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. 
The train hospital will offer free of cost quality services including OPDs, state-of-the-art sterilised operating theatres, cancer surgeries & preventive health services and restorative surgeries for vision, hearing, clefts, orthopaedic, neurological, dental and gynaecological problems etc.
Among others, SP Capital Tumme Amo and HoDs attended the meeting. DIPRO

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