Rajshahi Eye Hospital

Facility Identification

Division: Rajshahi

District: Rajshahi

District Code: 81

Facility Type: Private Hospital

Establishment Year: 2006

Type of Hospital: Eye Hospital

Category: Secondary Level Hospital

Size of the Hospital: 16 katha

Funding: The organization run their Eye care service activity by their own funding.

Patient Information

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

Average number of patients per day: 75

Patient number in last year: 28000

Payment Provided by: Patients. In case of poor patients, the hospital provides free treatment to them.

Equipments and Instruments

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

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

Human Resources

Total Human Resources: 10

Senior Ophthalmologist: 1

Refractionist: 1

Optometrist: 1

Outpatient Nurse: 1

Ward Nurse: 1

Theatre Nurse: 1

Name of the Ophthalmologists: 1. Dr. Mohammad Firoj Uddin

Professional Degree: Diploma in Ophthalmology

Professional Training taken from: CIETC

Administrative Human Resources:

Administrator: 1

Administrative support staff: 1

Cleaner: 3

Security Staff: 2

Biomedical/Equipment Technician: 3

Counselor: 2

Record keeping System: Papers

Service Area

This hospital provides diagnosis services.

Provided Services:

  1. Refractive Error
  2. Cataract
  3. Glaucoma
  4. Trauma
  5. Lacrimal Surgery

Referral System: They refer their patients to the specialized hospitals like their head office for complicated cases. Especially for the surgical strabismus, disorder of Retina and Vitreous they mainly refer patients to specialized hospitals. But they do not do anything to send the patients to the referred organizations. They mainly do follow up to the patients of surgery in the hospital.

Number of Cataract Operation in last 2 weeks: 20

Workload Estimation

Number of Beds in Hospital: 20

Effective Days for providing services: 360

Surgery per year: 650

Patients per year in outdoor: 13500

New patients per day: 45

Infrastructure

They have OT and OPD, IPP including medical records, optical shop and medical shop. They have 2 wards for eye department. And the average number of operation is 1 per day in this hospital. Size of the ward is 200 sq ft and the office area is 100 sq ft. According to them their hospital’s cleanliness is very good and they have continuous water, electricity and gas supplies.