Apollo Hospitals, Dhaka

Facility Identification

Division: Dhaka

District: Dhaka

District Code: 26

Year of establishment: 2005

Facility Type: Non Government Hospital

Type of Hospital: Mixed Hospital

Category: Secondary Level Hospital

Patient Information

All kinds of patients come here for the treatment of their eyes.

Payment Provided by: Patients

Human Resources

The eye department has Senior Ophthalmologist, Junior Ophthalmologist, Refractionist. Optometrist, Outpatient nurse, ward nurse and theatre nurse.

Doctor’s Name:

  1. Dr. Shira Khan
  2. Dr. Shormi

Professional Degree: Diploma in Ophthalmology

Administrative Human Resources:

The department doesn’t have administrative human resources for eye department, but the hospital authority has a huge number of administrative human resources.

Record keeping System: Both in papers and computers.

Macro Picture - Clinical Service Area

  1. Retina
  2. Glaucoma
  3. Cornea
  4. Surgical Cataract
  5. Pediatric
  6. Uvea
  7. Orbit
  8. General OPD
  9. Neuro
  10. Refractive Error and General Ophthalmology
  11. Low vision

Macro Picture - Other Activities

The facility has Biomedical engineering department, Microbiology, Pathology and Clinical Biochemistry, Housekeeping services and dietary services and radiology.

Patient Type and Registered Patients

Patients from different areas come here to take treatment.

Systems and Procedures:

The hospital has Clinical Protocol and Guidelines, clinical audit. HMIS, Counseling session, procurement policy, HR policy and Color coded waste management.

Space Management

The facility has reception room, cubicles for the fellows and medical officers, scrapping room, specular microscopy room and counseling room

Cornea - Equipments

It has reception room, fellow cubicles, scrapping room, specular microscopy room, counseling room and common waiting area.

Sl No Equipments Available Functioning Total Number
Available and observed Available but not observed Not Available Yes No Don’t Know
A Slit Lamp Yes
B Corneal topography unit Yes
C Aberrometry assessment unit Yes
D Specular microscope Yes
E Light microscope Yes
F Basic microbiology instruments Yes
G LASIK (Optional) Yes

Glaucoma - Equipments

Sl No Equipments Available Functioning Total Number
Available and observed Available but not observed Not Available Yes No Don’t Know
A Slit Lamp Yes
B Goldmann Applanation tonometry Yes
C Diagnostic lenses (90 D, 20D, 78D) Yes
D Gonioscope Yes
E Perkins tonometer Yes
F Pachymetry Yes
G Humphrey Visual Field Analyzer Yes
H Heidelberg retinal tomography (HRT)- shared Yes
I Optical coherence tomography (OCT)-shared Yes
J Anterior segment OCT Yes
K Ultrasound biomicroscope-shared Yes
L YAG Laser for glaucoma surgery-shared Yes
M Fundus photography-shared Yes

Glaucoma - Space management

The hospital has registration cubicle, preliminary examination room, final examination room and counseling room. They have Yag PI.

Oculoplasty - Equipments

Sl No Equipments Available Functioning Total Number
Available and observed Available but not observed Not Available Yes No Don’t Know
a Hess Chart Yes
b B-scan (shared) Yes
c Indirect ophthalmoscopy Yes
d X-ray Yes
e CT Scan Yes
f MRI Yes
g Color Vision chart Yes

Oculoplasty - Space Management

The department has refraction room, procedure room, prosthesis room, counseling room, oncology room.

Pediatric Ophthalmology - Equipments

Sl No Equipments Available Functioning Total Number
Available and observed Available but not observed Not Available Yes No Don’t Know
A Outpatient Area
a Sheridan Gardiner test/ Cambridge simple crowding test Yes
b Simple Snellen Visual acuity charts- drum Yes
c Cardiff Card Yes
d Set of trial lenses with trial frame Yes
e Streak retinoscope Yes
f Direct ophthalmoscope Yes
g Head-band loupe Yes
h Slit lamp with table & applanation tonometer Yes
i 90 D or 78 D lens Yes
j Ishihara color vision book Yes
k Indirect ophthalmoscope with +20D /+30D lens, pediatric indentor and teaching mirrors Yes
l Fixation toy device Yes
m Romanes Occluder Yes
n Air Puff Tonometer Yes
o Tonopen Yes
p Worth 4 dot test set with Red and Green glasses – Near vision Yes
q Worth 4 dot test set with Red and Green glasses – distance vision Yes
r TNO stereo test set with Red and Green glasses. Yes
s Electric Hess screen with fosters torches Yes
t Loose prism set Yes
u Prism bar – horizontal Yes
v Prism bar – vertical Yes
w RAF ruler Yes
x Synoptophore Yes
y B-Scan Yes
z A-scan Yes
aa. IOL Master Biometry Yes
  Operating Room
kk Probing set Yes
ll Instruments for examination Under GA Yes
mm Ptosis surgical instrument set Yes
nn Enucleation surgical instrument set Yes
oo Chalazion surgical instrument set Yes
pp Strabismus surgical instrument set Yes
qq Cataract/Phaco surgical instrument Set Yes
rr Vertical/Horizontal autoclave with Time/Pressure/Temperature indicator Yes
ss Flash/Speed autoclave/Hot air woven Yes
tt Wet field cautery Yes
uu HEPA Filters/ Laminar Air Flow Yes
vv Operating Microscope with continuous zoom, observer scope/CCTV Yes
ww Phaco machine with in-built vitrectomy probe Yes
xx Vitrectomy unit Yes
B Anesthetic Equipments
a Anesthesia Unit Yes
b Patient monitor with pulse oximetry, blood pressure measurements, ECG, Temperature, capnography suitable for age range of children Yes
c Pediatric ventilator Yes
d Defibrillator Yes
e Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) Yes
f Suction Machine Yes
C Optical Workshop Equipment
a Automatic lensometer Yes
b Edging machine Yes
c Surfacing Machine Yes

Pediatric Ophthalmology - Space management

The department has Orthoptist room, hess chart/Diplopia Investigation room, play ground, private room, optical room. In the operation theatre they have wash room, patient preparation room, theatre area, post operative recovery room and score room.