lifeline Express, the world’s first state-of-art hospital on a train, has started functioning at the Junagarh Road railway station, Kalahandi from Wednesday and will stay there till September 26.
This is a project started by the SBI Foundation. For running this project, the SBI Foundation has partnered with NGO Impact India Foundation. A plethora of medical services, including corrective surgeries, will be available to the people free of cost for 20 days in the lifeline Express. The services include orthopaedic, ophthalmic, middle ear operations, plastic surgery, dental and oral health hygiene services, epilepsy treatments, cardiac, gynaecology and paediatrics, etc. Hearing aids, spectacles, calipers, crutches, wheelchairs, etc., will be distributed among deserving patients free of cost.
A health education programme will be conducted for schoolchildren, health activists and Anganwadi Workers in the train free of cost.
SBI Chief General Manager B Venugopala Reddy has appealed to the people of Odisha to avail the opportunity and get the medical facilities.