Lions Eye Care Center

Facility Identification

Division: Dhaka

District: Netrokona

District Code: 72

Facility Type: Private Hospital

Establishment Year: 2008

Type of Hospital: Eye Hospital

Category: Secondary Level Hospital

Size of the Hospital: The hospital doesn’t have it’s own land.

Funding: This organization is running their eye care service by the regular funding of donor agencies.

Patient Information

Patient Type: All types of patients from different ages visit the hospital.

Average number of patients per day: 20

Patient number in last year: 6000

Payment Provided by: Mainly Patients. In case of poor patients, the hospital authority as well as donor agencies provide free treatment to them.

Equipments and Instruments

By calling tender they buy their instruments and sometimes some donor agency/NGO provides some equipment.

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 2
b Schiotz Tonometer Yes Yes 1
c Direct Opthalmoscope Yes Yes 1
d Indirect Opthalmoscope Yes Yes 1
e 90 D lens Yes Yes 1
f 20 D lens Yes Yes 1
g Gonioprism Yes
h Bjerum’s screen Yes Yes 1
i Hess chart screen Yes Yes 1
j Material for diplopia chart Yes
k Red green goggles Yes
Refraction
m Snellen test type Yes Yes 1
n Near vision testing(Jaeger or Snellen) Yes Yes 1
o Streak Retinoscope Yes Yes 1
p Trial Frame and trial case Yes
q Prism bar Yes Yes 1
r Refractometer Yes Yes 1
s A-scan Yes Yes 1
t Keratometer Yes
B Advancer secondary eye care  
a FFA including Fundus camera Yes Yes 1
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
b PHACO Machine Yes
c Automated Vitrectomy Yes
d Bipolar Cautery Yes Yes 1
e Steam Autoclave Yes
f Flash/Speed Autoclave Yes Yes 1
g Suction Machine Yes Yes 1
h Oxygen Cylinder with nasal canula Yes Yes 1
i Endotracheal intubation Yes
j Ambu bag Yes Yes 1
k Laryngoscope Yes
l BP Machine Yes Yes 3
m Stethoscope Yes Yes 3
Surgical Instruments
o Cataract surgical sets Yes Yes 2
p DCR set Yes Yes 2
q Chalazion I/C set Yes Yes 2
r Enucleation and Evisceration set Yes
D Optical dispensing instruments  
a Manual Edging set Yes Yes 2
b Rimless & Supraframes grooving machine Yes Yes 2
c Lensometer Yes Yes 1
d Trial set (Manual power check) Yes Yes 2

Human Resources

Total Human Resources: 16

Senior Ophthalmologist: 1

Junior Ophthalmologist: 2

Optometrist: 1

Outpatient Nurse: 1

Ward Nurse: 2

Theatre Nurse: 1

Name of the Ophthalmologists: 1. Dr. Bitu Krishna Roy

Professional Degree: Diploma in Ophthalmology

Administrative Human Resources:

Administrator: 1

Eye Camp Coordinator: 1

House Keeper: 1

Cleaner: 2

Security Staff: 2

Counselor: 1

Record keeping System: Both in papers and computers

Service Area

This hospital provides diagnosis services.

Provided Services:

  1. Refractive Error
  2. Cataract
  3. Glaucoma

Referral System

They refer their patients to the specialized hospitals for complicated cases. Especially for the surgical strabismus, disorder of Retina and Vitreous and Complicated pediatric Cases they mainly refer patients to specialized hospitals and specialized doctors. But they do not do anything to send the patients to the referred organizations. They mainly do follow up to the patients through follow up visit.

Workload Estimation

Number of Beds in Hospital: 15

Effective Days for providing services: 300

Surgery per year: 600

Patients per year in outdoor: 6500

New patients per day: 15

Infrastructure

They have OT and OPD, IPP including medical records, optical shop and medical shop. They have 2 wards and each ward consists of 7 dedicated beds. The average number of operation is 2 per day in this hospital. According to them their hospital’s cleanliness is very good and they have continuous water and electricity supplies but they do not have gas supply.