Tata Steel takes Lifeline Express to remote Chhattisgarh

Jamshedpur, Dec 12 (UNI) The 11th Lifeline Express, a veritable hospital on wheels, was commissioned at Jagdalpur Railway Station in Chhattisgarh, a Tata Steel official said here today.

Tata Steel in collaboration with the Indian Railways, Impact India Foundation and Government of Chhattisgarh organised this unique initiative of 'Lifeline Express' on December 3 to provide health care and basic health facilities in the remote areas of the state.

The hospital on wheels offers on the spot diagnostic, medical and surgical interventions to the disabled, free of cost. It epitomizes an international initiative, which began in 1981 in England to prevent and cure avoidable disablement. The hospital on wheels would halt at Jagdalpur Railway Station till December 23 and during this period Tata Steel would provide free health services, inclusive of diagnosis, surgery, medicines and food, for patients and one attendant along with them, the sources said.

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