Jhalokathi Sadar Hospital

Facility Identification

Division: Barisal

District: Jhalokathi

District Code: 42

Facility Type: 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.

Average number of patients per day: 50

Patient number in last year: 18000

Payment Provided by: Government

Human Resources

Total Human Resources: 9

Senior Ophthalmologist: 1

Refractionist: 3

There are 180 Outpatient nurses and 3 theatre nurses work in the hospital, not for any specific department.

Name of the Ophthalmologist: 1. Dr. Mirza Mahbubur Rahman, MBBS. Eye, microsurgery and Contact lens specialist

Professional Degree: Diploma in Ophthalmology, MS,

The doctor was on leave for 3 months. That’s why nobody didn’t give information about equipments and instruments.

Administrative Human Resources:

Administrator: 1

Cleaner: 2

Driver: 2

Record keeping system: Both in Papers and computers.

Service Area

Service Area:

1. Cataract

2. Glaucoma

3. Trauma

Referral System: If needed they refer their patients to some specialized hospitals or specific doctor for the complicated cases i.e. disorder of retina and vitrous and complicated pediatric cases, they arrange the referral if needed by providing ambulance and follow up their patients regularly.

Number of Cataract Operation in 2 weeks: 10

Workload Estimation

Number of Bed: 100

Effective Days for providing services: 365 days

Surgery per year: more than 300

Outdoor patients per year: more than 7000

New patients per day: 7-10

Infrastructure

On an average, 1 operation takes place every day in this hospital. The hospital has 8 beds for the eye department. They have uninterrupted water, gas and electricity supply and their cleanliness is good.

As the doctor was on vacation, patients were not getting proper treatment at that time.