Lifeline Express China

Since 1997, the organization has operated rainbow-coloured hospital "Eye-Trains," which provide free cataract surgery to patients in rural parts of China.

[1] There has been an increase in the number of young people in remote areas suffering from cataracts due to unsatisfactory hygiene conditions and demanding physical labor; and, more and more cases are diagnosed as genetically inherited.

A group of Hong Kong philanthropists visited India to see the Lifeline Express in action and then discussed the idea with China's Ministry of Public Health.

Over the past decade, the eye-trains of Lifeline Express have visited over 27 Chinese provinces, cities and autonomous regions and cured more than 100,000 cataract patients in remote and poverty-stricken areas of China.

Trains remain at each location for three months, performing 25 free eye operations every day for a total of about 1,500 patients having their eyesight restored at each stop.

[4][5] There are 12 team members on each train, including doctors, nurses, engineering technician and administrative staff recruited from mainland hospitals.