Chittagong General Hospital
Facility Identification
Division: Chittagong
District: Chittagong
District Code: 15
Facility Type: Government Hospital
Establishment Year: 1944
Type of Hospital: Mixed Hospital
Category: Secondary Level Hospital
Size: 10 acres
Patient Information
All kinds of patients come here for the eye care service.
Patients per day: 70
Total patients in last year: 20000
Payment Provided by: Government
Equipments and Instruments
The hospital gets equipments and instruments as donation from government.
| 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 | |||||
| b | Schiotz Tonometer | Yes | Yes | |||||
| c | Direct Opthalmoscope | Yes | Yes | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| n | Near vision testing(Jaeger or Snellen) | Yes | ||||||
| o | Streak Retinoscope | Yes | ||||||
| p | Trial Frame and trial case | Yes | ||||||
| q | Prism bar | Yes | ||||||
| r | Refractometer | Yes | ||||||
| s | A-scan | Yes | Yes | |||||
| t | Keratometer | Yes | Yes | |||||
| 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 | Yes | ||||||
| d | Bipolar Cautery | Yes | ||||||
| e | Steam Autoclave | Yes | Yes | |||||
| f | Flash/Speed Autoclave | Yes | Yes | |||||
| g | Suction Machine | Yes | Yes | |||||
| h | Oxygen Cylinder with nasal canula | Yes | Yes | |||||
| i | Endotracheal intubation | Yes | Yes | |||||
| j | Ambu bag | Yes | Yes | |||||
| k | Laryngoscope | Yes | Yes | |||||
| l | BP Machine | Yes | Yes | |||||
| m | Stethoscope | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Surgical Instruments | ||||||||
| o | Cataract surgical sets | Yes | Yes | |||||
| p | DCR set | Yes | Yes | |||||
| q | Chalazion I/C set | 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 | Yes | |||||
Human Resources
Total Human Resources: 8
Senior Ophthalmologist: 1
Junior Ophthalmologist: 1
Ward Nurse: 2
Theatre Nurse: 2
Professional Degree: Diploma in Ophthalmology, MS, FCPS
Administrative Human Resources:
House keeper: 1
Cleaner: 1
Record keeping system: Both in Papers.
Service Area
- Refractive Error
- Cataract
- Glaucoma
- Trauma
- Lacrimal Surgery
- Medical Strabismus
Referral System: If needed they refer their patients to the specialized hospitals for the complicated cases i.e. surgical strabismus, disorder of retina and vitrous and complicated pediatric cases. They follow up their patients regularly.
Cataract operations in last 2 weeks: 8
Workload Estimation
Number of Bed: 250
Effective Days for providing services: 290 days
Surgery per year: 290
Outdoor patients per year: 20000
New patients per day: 60
Infrastructure
They have OT, OPD, IPP including medical records and optical shop. In the theatre area operations take place twice a week and the size of the theatre is 300 sq ft. the hospital has 1 dedicated ward including 4 beds for the eye department. It has uninterrupted water, gas and electricity supply and its cleanliness is good.
