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Lifeline Express
Mission: "Putting hope in sight"
In China since: 1007
Annual China budget: $3,000,000
Mainland China contact:
Juliana Ma
General Manager
Rm 2518, 5/F, Friendship Bldg,
277 Wangfujing Dajie,Beijing 100740
Tel: +86 (0)10 6528 9913
This organisation has replicated a project created in India by the Impact India Foundation. Their ‘Lifeline Express’ train travels around India performing eye surgeries for poor people who have limited access to health care. In 1996, Impact India came to Hong Kong to raise funds for this work. Some of the individuals they approached for support quickly saw the potential for mounting a similar operation on China’s mainland. A group of Hong Kong philanthropists visited India to see the Lifeline Express in action, discussed the idea with China’s Ministry of Public Health, and then started raising funds. On July 1, 1997 – the day of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty – the first Chinese Lifeline Express, fitted out as a mobile eye hospital, pulling out of Kowloon station, bound for Fuyang in Anhui Province.
The train has since traveled China’s extensive rail network, taking mainland Chinese surgeons from big city hospitals to perform cataract surgeries and train local doctors in remote areas. Hong Kong surgeons also volunteer to serve on the train during their vacations, demonstrating surgical techniques and holding on-board training workshops for local doctors. .In 1999, Lifeline Express fitted out a second train, and a third was added in 2003. More than 44,000 people have had their sight restored through surgeries performed on the trains.
Lifeline Express hopes in future to help establish eye surgery training centers in mainland hospitals, in order to increase China’s capacity for delivering comprehensive eye care.
Lifelong Express draws support from corporations, foundations and private individuals in Hong Kong. For capital expenditure on fitting the trains, Lifeline Express generally relies on corporate and foundation donors, raising operational costs through public fundraising activities.
Links
http://www.lifelineexpress.org.hk
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