Lifeline Express launch medical services at Kazipet railway station

India’s only hospital train, Lifeline Express, launched its medical services at Kazipet railway station here on Thursday for the benefit of underprivileged patients. The Lifeline Express will offer its services till January 29.

Warangal Police Commissioner G Sudheer Babu and Warangal Urban Collector Amrapali Kata formally launched the services of the 179th project of the Lifeline Express.

The State Bank of India Foundation is sponsoring the project of the Lifeline Express which is run by the Impact Foundation and Indian Railways.President and Chief Operating Officer, SBI Foundation, R Narottham Reddy, appealed to the poor and underprivileged patients from Warangal Rural, Warangal Urban, Jangaon, Mahabubabad and Jayashankar Bhupalpally districts to utilise the medical services including the surgeries free of cost at the Lifeline Express.

background: white; box-sizing: border-box;">“We will even provide transport facility to those who cannot afford to come here from far off places. Our SBI bank officials would help the patients to arrive at Kazipet,” he announced.Stating that the last two projects, sponsored by SBI in Assam and Odisha earlier, were attended by about 10,000 patients. Narottham Reddy hoped that more than 10,000 patients would utilise the services at Kazipet.

He said that he had convinced the Lifeline Express management to offer services at Kazipet.Lifeline Express manager Vaibhav Gupta said that they had conducted more than one lakh surgeries and provided medical services to one million people since its inception in 1991.

Surgeries like cataract (eye), cleft lip, orthopaedic/polio corrective and ear will be conducted besides screening for oral, breast and cervical cancer, counselling, dental and epilepsy treatment at the state-of-the-art hospital on wheels.