Tangail Sadar Hospital
Facility Identification
Division: Dhaka
District: Rajbari
District Code: 93
Facility Type: Government Hospital
Establishment Year: 1974
Type of Hospital: Mixed
Category: Secondary Level Hospital
Funding: The hospital gets funding from Fred Hollows for their eye services. For the eye care service, new instruments and poor patient’s free treatment Fred Hollows provides the funding and they will continue it till next 5 years.
Patient Information
Patients from different ages come here for the treatment of their eye diseases. Here different types of eye care services are provided to the patients.
Average number of patients per day: 150-200
Patient number in last year: 70000
Payment Provided by: Government
Equipments and Instruments
Government and Fred Hollows provide funding for the equipments and instruments.
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Sl No |
Equipments |
Available |
Functioning |
Total Number |
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| 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 | 2 | ||||
| d | Indirect Opthalmoscope | yes | yes | 1 | ||||
| e | 90 D lens | yes | ||||||
| f | 20 D lens | yes | ||||||
| g | Gonioprism | yes | ||||||
| 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 | 1 | |||||
| n | Near vision testing(Jaeger or Snellen) | yes | yes | 2 | ||||
| o | Streak Retinoscope | yes | yes | 1 | ||||
| p | Trial Frame and trial case | yes | yes | 2 | ||||
| q | Prism bar | yes | ||||||
| r | Refractometer | yes | ||||||
| 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 | yes | 2 | ||||
| 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 | 2 | ||||
| b | PHACO Machine | yes | ||||||
| c | Automated Vitrectomy | yes | ||||||
| d | Bipolar Cautery | yes | yes | 2 | ||||
| e | Steam Autoclave | yes | yes | 2 | ||||
| f | Flash/Speed Autoclave | yes | ||||||
| g | Suction Machine | yes | yes | 1 | ||||
| h | Oxygen Cylinder with nasal canula | yes | yes | 2 | ||||
| i | Endotracheal intubation | yes | ||||||
| j | Ambu bag | yes | yes | 3 | ||||
| k | Laryngoscope | yes | yes | 2 | ||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 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: 9
Senior Ophthalmologist: 1
Refractionist: 1
Theatre Nurse: 2
Name of the Ophthalmologists: Dr. B K Saha
Professional Degree: Diploma in Ophthalmology
Administrative Human Resources:
Administrator: 1
Administrative support staff: 2
Cleaner: 2
Record keeping System: in papers
Service Area
Provided Services
- Cataract
- Lacrimal Surgery
Referral System: They refer their patients to the specialized hospitals for the treatment of Disorder of retina and vitrous and complicated pediatric cases. They follow up their patients if the patients come back again in the hospital.
Number of Cataract Operation: 6 (The Dr. is on 3 months’ leave)
Workload Estimation
Number of Bed: 250
Effective Days for providing services: 360
Surgery per year: 300
Outdoor patients per year: 600
Outreach camp per month: 1
In 2009 they got a SSTP training here
Infrastructure
They have OPD. The hospital has 2 wards dedicated for eye department and each of them has 15 beds. Size of the operation theatre is 400 sq ft. The hospital has many instruments, but due to the lack of manpower (Operator) they could not use all the instruments properly. They have uninterrupted power supply and their cleanliness is good.
