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India's Hospital Train

Documentary following the Lifeline Express, a train equipped with medical equipment, operating theatres and staff which brings assistance to poor people in rural areas of India.

The story of a special train, the Lifeline Express. It is known as the Magic Train. With two state-of-the-art operating theatres, recovery rooms, offices and accommodation, each project requires a team of volunteer doctors, surgeons and nurses to give their services for free. For four weeks, cameras follow the Mandsor project as operations are carried out on poor rural people while the train is standing in a station in the middle of India.

Dashrath is going deaf, Bharat can't walk and baby Shiva was born with a cleft lip. They cannot reach a hospital and they can't afford the operations. The operations change the lives of both patients and doctors. With compelling, dynamic and moving stories, the Magic Train opens a gateway to another India, where 21st-century medicine meets village India.

58 minutes

Last on

Thu 28 Mar 2024 19:00

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Producer Gerry Troyna
Director Gerry Troyna

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