Impact's Lifeline Express on BBC Documentary

A documentary on Impact’s extraordinary Lifeline Express, largely funded by Rotarians, including many Clubs in D1260, will feature in a BBC 4 documentary at 9pm on Thursday, 26th March.

The so called Magic Train is fitted out with standard medical equipment, two operating theatres, generators to provide air conditioning, a post recovery unit, plus doctor and surgeon quarters. Surgeons carry out operations for cataracts, cleft lips, ear deformities, club foot and deformities due to polio. 

No charge is made to patients and work is financed by doctors and surgeons giving their own time and from voluntary donations across the world.

When needed, two of the carriages can be detached and sent to areas of disaster within India, where they can work independently.

The Lifeline Express, formally opened by past president Peter Offer in April 2008, was largely funded by Rotarians who supported Peter Offer’s chosen charity for 2007, Impact.

You can find more information on the Lifeline Express and the Impact Foundation at their website - www.impact.org.uk