Tuesday, 2 March 2010

REALLY AN AMAZING TRAIN-OUTSTANDING WORK

Yesterday ,i was watching a documentry about lifeline express and the outstandind story about this one and only train .It is an amazing example of our indian railway service.
The Lifeline Express or Jeevan Rekha Express is a mobile hospital train run by the Impact India Foundation. It was developed in collaboration with the Indian Railways and Health Ministry and has been funded by Impact UK, international charitable sources, Indian corporate houses and individuals. It started on 16 July 1991; so far the service has benefitted 400,000 Indians in the remotest rural parts of the country over the course of approximately ninety-three projects.



Each Lifeline express train, with specially designed air-conditioned coaches, has one surgical operation theatre with three operating tables, a sterilizing room, several patient wards, on-board power generators, a pantry car, storage for medical supplies, and accommodation for medical staff. The New Lifeline express was given by the Indian Railways in 2007 has five coaches. The first coach consists of the office and the medical store, as well as two autoclave units. It also houses a drawing room. The Staff compartment is situated at the rear with a 12 berth staff-quarter, kitchen unit, water purifier, a gas stove and electric oven and refrigerator. The train has a main Operation Theatre with three operating tables and a second self-contained operating theatre with two tables. In the main theatre, each table has its own set of anesthetic equipment, shadow lights, Boyles apparatus with Halothene Vapourisers and imported Carl Zeiss microscope, multipurpose, monitor, defibrillator, diathermy cautery machine, anesthesia ventilator etc. The theatres are equipped with a closed circuit television camera which is used in providing training to local doctors in live surgical procedures. An attached six bed recovery room is situated beside the main theatre. The Lifeline Express also has a self contained operation theatre. The second theatre is powered by an independent 75 KVA Diesel Generating set and this can be detached to form a stand-alone operation theatre, and is to be used in disaster management.
Additionally, the train has an Ophthalmologic testing room, a Laboratory, a X-Ray unit and an auditorium with a large LCD display unit. The train also has a public address system and closed-circuit TV.
Indian Railway after 16 years of work (93 projects in different parts of India) from the Lifeline Express has provided Impact India foundation with five New coaches, for the new and improved Jeevan Rekha Express. There was just one Operation theater in the old one however according to the CEO of the Lifeline Express Col. Randhir Singh Vishwen the operation theatres would be doubled now. The rest of the setup remains same.
The Lifeline Express was started on July 16, 1991, with three coaches donated by IR, and equipment from Impact India, a non-profit Organisation based in seven countries around the world, with its Indian headquarters in Mumbai. Impact India still runs the trains with help from IR and corporate and private donors.This train is an amazing example of indian's services ,i m right now thinking to write an script related with this train .SALUTE TO INDIAN RAILWAYS.

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