Dhaka Community Medical College Hospital, Dhaka
Facility Identification
Division: Dhaka
District: Dhaka
District Code: 26
Facility Type: Non Government Hospital
Type of Hospital: Mixed Hospital
Category: Secondary Level Hospital
Funding: The hospital got personal funding and donor agency’s funding to operate the hospital.
Patient Information
All kinds of patients come here for the treatment of their eyes.
Average number of patients per day: 100
Patient number in last year: 35000
Payment Provided by: Patients
Equipments and Instruments
The hospital exports its equipments and instruments from abroad and sometimes they call tender to buy the machineries.
| Sl No | Equipments | Available | Functioning | Total Number | ||||
| Available and observed | Available but not observed | Not Available | Yes | No | Don’t Know | |||
| A | OPD | |||||||
| a | Slit Lamp | Yes | Yes | |||||
| b | Schiotz Tonometer | Yes | Yes | |||||
| c | Direct Opthalmoscope | Yes | Yes | |||||
| d | Indirect Opthalmoscope | Yes | Yes | |||||
| e | 90 D lens | Yes | Yes | |||||
| f | 20 D lens | Yes | ||||||
| g | Gonioprism | Yes | Yes | |||||
| h | Bjerum’s screen | Yes | ||||||
| i | Hess chart screen | Yes | ||||||
| j | Material for diplopia chart | Yes | Yes | |||||
| k | Red green goggles | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Refraction | ||||||||
| m | Snellen test type | Yes | Yes | |||||
| n | Near vision testing(Jaeger or Snellen) | Yes | Yes | |||||
| o | Streak Retinoscope | Yes | Yes | |||||
| p | Trial Frame and trial case | Yes | Yes | |||||
| q | Prism bar | Yes | ||||||
| r | Refractometer | Yes | Yes | |||||
| s | A-scan | Yes | Yes | |||||
| t | Keratometer | Yes | Yes | |||||
| B | Advancer secondary eye care | |||||||
| a | FFA including Fundus camera | Yes | ||||||
| b | YAG Laser with slit lamp adapter | Yes | ||||||
| c | Laser unit for retinal coagulation | Yes | ||||||
| d | Exophthalmometer | Yes | ||||||
| e | B-Scan | Yes | ||||||
| C | OT | |||||||
| a | Operating Microscope with co-axial illumination & focus control | Yes | Yes | |||||
| b | PHACO Machine | Yes | ||||||
| c | Automated Vitrectomy | Yes | ||||||
| d | Bipolar Cautery | Yes | Yes | |||||
| e | Steam Autoclave | Yes | Yes | |||||
| f | Flash/Speed Autoclave | Yes | ||||||
| g | Suction Machine | Yes | ||||||
| h | Oxygen Cylinder with nasal canula | Yes | ||||||
| i | Endotracheal intubation | Yes | ||||||
| j | Ambu bag | Yes | ||||||
| k | Laryngoscope | Yes | ||||||
| l | BP Machine | Yes | Yes | |||||
| m | Stethoscope | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Surgical Instruments | ||||||||
| o | Cataract surgical sets | Yes | Yes | |||||
| p | DCR set | Yes | Yes | |||||
| q | Chalazion I/C set | Yes | Yes | |||||
| r | Enucleation and Evisceration set | Yes | Yes | |||||
| D | Optical dispensing instruments | |||||||
| a | Manual Edging set | Yes | ||||||
| b | Rimless & Supraframes grooving machine | Yes | ||||||
| c | Lensometer | Yes | ||||||
| d | Trial set (Manual power check) | Yes | ||||||
Human Resources
Total Human Resources: 40
Senior Ophthalmologist: 2
Junior Ophthalmologist: 1
Refractionist: 2
Optometrist: 1
Outpatient Nurse: 3
Ward Nurse: 18
Nurses work for the whole hospital.
Name of the Ophthalmologist: 1. Prof. Dr. Enamul Kabir
- Prof. Dr. Salahuddin
- Dr. Nurul Huda
Professional Degree: Diploma in Ophthalmology, MS, FCPS
Administrative Human Resources:
Administrator: 1
Eye Camp Coordinator: 2
Administrative support staff: 1
House keeper: 3
Cleaner: 4
Security Staff: 1
Biomedical/Equipment Technician: 2
The administrative human resources work for the whole hospital, not specifically for any department.
Record keeping system: Both in Papers and computers.
Service Area
- Refractive error
- Cataract
- Glaucoma
- Trauma
- Lacrimal Surgery
- Medical Strabismus
Referral System
If needed they refer their patients to some specialized hospitals for the complicated cases i.e. surgical strabismus, disorder of retina and vitrous and complicated pediatric cases, they arrange the referral if needed and follow up their patients regularly.
The hospital has CME program.
Number of Cataract Operation in 2 weeks: 18
Workload Estimation
Number of Bed: 120
Effective Days for providing services: 365 days
Surgery per year: 3000
New patients per day: 70
Outreach camp per month: 3
Infrastructure
They have OT, OPD, IPP including medical records, optical shop and medical shop. In the eye department 8-9 operations take place a day on an average. They have 2 dedicated wards for the eye department. They have uninterrupted power supply and their cleanliness is very good.
