Medical College for Women and Hospital, Uttara
Facility Identification
Division: Dhaka
District: Dhaka
District Code: 26
Facility Type: Non Government Hospital
Establishment Year: 1992
Type of Hospital: Mixed Hospital
Category: Secondary Level Hospital
Patient Information
All kinds of patients come here for the treatment of their eyes.
Average number of patients per day: 50 (only eye)
Patient number in last year: almost 15000
Payment Provided by: Patients
Equipments and Instruments
The hospital calls tender to buy their equipments and instruments.
| 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 | ||||||
| b | Schiotz Tonometer | Yes | ||||||
| c | Direct Opthalmoscope | 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 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| t | Keratometer | 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 | ||||||
| b | PHACO Machine | Yes | ||||||
| c | Automated Vitrectomy | Yes | ||||||
| d | Bipolar Cautery | Yes | ||||||
| e | Steam Autoclave | Yes | ||||||
| f | Flash/Speed Autoclave | Yes | ||||||
| g | Suction Machine | Yes | ||||||
| h | Oxygen Cylinder with nasal canula | Yes | ||||||
| i | Endotracheal intubation | Yes | ||||||
| j | Ambu bag | Yes | ||||||
| k | Laryngoscope | Yes | ||||||
| l | BP Machine | Yes | ||||||
| m | Stethoscope | Yes | ||||||
| Surgical Instruments | ||||||||
| o | Cataract surgical sets | Yes | Yes | |||||
| p | DCR set | Yes | Yes | |||||
| q | Chalazion I/C set | Yes | Yes | |||||
| r | Enucleation and Evisceration set | Yes | 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: 4
Senior Ophthalmologist: 2
Junior Ophthalmologist: 2
Name of the Ophthalmologist: 1. Dr. Palash Barua
- Dr. Abu Yousuf talukder
- Dr. Kaniz Ahmed Shahnaz
- Dr. Amina Haque
Professional Degree: All of them are post graduate
Administrative Human Resources:
There is no specific human resource for eye department.
Record keeping system: In papers.
Service Area
- Refractive Error
- Cataract
- Glaucoma
- Trauma
- Lacrimal Surgery
- Medical Strabismus
Referral System: If needed they refer their patients to some specialized hospitals for the complicated cases i.e. disorder of retina and vitrous and complicated pediatric cases. They arrange the referral if needed and they follow up their patients if they revisit the hospital.
They have CME program.
Number of Cataract Operation in 2 weeks: 5
Workload Estimation
Total beds: 500
Effective Days for providing services: 300 days
Surgery per year: 150 (only eye)
Outdoor patients per year: 12000
Outreach camp per month: 1
SSTP Training: 2
Infrastructure
The hospital has OT, OPD, IPP including medical records and medical shop. Size of the theatre area is 380 sq ft. The hospital has 2 dedicated wards and each of them have 5 beds for eye department. Size of the ward is 750 sq ft. the hospital has uninterrupted power supply and the hospital is properly cleaned.
