The lifeline Express will be stationed in Raigarh from August 2 to 24 this year for the benefit of the patients of the region requiring treatment and surgery if required.
A team of specialist doctors available in lifeline Express will perform free of cost surgery of patients suffering from cataract, deformed lips and polio affected children and plastic surgery of burn victims, an official press release issued here on Wednesday stated.In the time-bound meeting, District Collector Mukesh Bansal, while giving detailed information about the lifeline Express to the district level officers, appealed to ensure that the benefits of it would reach more and more needy people.
The Collector directed the SDM, Janpad CEOs and officers of Health Department to ensure wide publicity of the date of stay of this mobile hospital train in villages and to identify patients affected from cataract, deformed lips and handicapped children and to prepare a list of them.
Through the lifeline Express ear, dental treatment could also be done. The Collector has appealed to the industrial organisations to identify such patients in their respective areas and to prepare a list, so that free of cost treatment facility could be made available to them.According to information available, the testing of cataract patients would be done from August 1 to 19 and operation from August 2 to 20. Children of more than six months of age, whose lips are deformed will be examined on August 13 and 14 and operation will be performed on August 14, 15 and 16.
Similarly, examination of polio affected children of below 14 years of age will be done on August 17 and 18 and operation from August 18 to 20. The patients who have running ears will be examined on August 21 and 22 and operation will be performed from August 22 to 24. Treatment of dental and epileptic patients will be done during August 10 to 17 and from 22 to 24.
The Collector said that block-wise date will be fixed for examination and operation of patients through the lifeline Express. The district administration will arrange transportation, food and boarding of patients free of cost.Bansal asked the Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) to identify such patients by holding special camps at block headquarter level on July 14 and 21. If need be, this camp should be organised at sector level.
The Collector also directed the Janpad CEOs to collect information about cataract, deformed lips, polio affected and other patients through field staff of panchayat and rural development and other departments.