United General Hospital, Manikganj

Facility Identification

Division: Dhaka

District: Manikganj

District Code: 56

Facility Type: Private Hospital

Establishment Year: 2003

Type of Hospital: Mixed Hospital

Category: Secondary Level Hospital

Size of the Hospital: The hospital does not have its own land.

Patient Information

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

Average number of patients per day: 25

Patient number in last year: <5000-10000

Payment Provided by: Patients

Equipments and Instruments

By buy their instruments by themselves according to their regulations.

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 1
d Indirect Opthalmoscope Yes
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
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 Yes 1
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
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
d Bipolar Cautery Yes
e Steam Autoclave P
f Flash/Speed Autoclave Yes
g Suction Machine Yes
h Oxygen Cylinder with nasal canula Yes Yes
i Endotracheal intubation Yes
j Ambu bag Yes
k Laryngoscope Yes Yes 1
l BP Machine Yes Yes 1
m Stethoscope Yes Yes 1
Surgical Instruments
o Cataract surgical sets Yes Yes
p DCR set Yes
q Chalazion I/C set Yes Yes
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: 10

Senior Ophthalmologist: 1

Rifractionist: 1

Optimitrist: 2

One general nurse is working as Outpatient Nurse, Ward Nurse as well as Theatre Nurse

Name of the Ophthalmologists: 1. Dr. A. K. M Sharifu Alam

Professional Degree: Diploma in Ophthalmology, MS, FCPS

Professional Degree taken from: NIO

Administrative Human Resources:

Administrator: 1

Eye Camp Coordinator: 1

Cleaner: 1

Biomedical/ Equipment Technician: 1

Counselor: 1

Record keeping System: Paper only.

Service Area

This hospital provides diagnosis services.

Provided Services:

  1. Refractive Error
  2. Cataract

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. But they do not do anything to send the patients to the referred organizations. They supervise and coordinate some primary eye care centers and they have activities on continuing medical education (CME) program.

Workload Estimation

Number of Beds in Hospital: 4 (Only for Eye Department)

Effective Days for providing services: 290

Surgery per year: 336

Patients per year in outdoor: 7250

New patients come every day: 20

Infrastructure

They have OT and OPD, IPP including medical records, optical shop and medical shop. They have 1 ward and 4 dedicated beds for eye department. They usually operate their patient twice in a week. Size of the operating theater is 400 sq ft and the office area is 150 sq ft. According to them their hospital’s cleanliness is good and they have continuous water, gas and electricity supply.