Mymensing Medical College Hospital

Facility Identification

Division: Dhaka

District: Mymensingh

District Code: 61

Facility Type: Government Hospital

Establishment Year: 1962

Type of Hospital: Mixed

Category: Secondary Level Hospital

Size of the Hospital: 8 acres

Patient Information

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

They provide IOL, DCR, Phaco, A-scan, B-scan and pathology services to the patients of eye diseases.

Average number of patients per day: 200

Patient number in last year: 70000

Payment Provided by: Government

Equipments and Instruments

By calling tender they buy their equipments and instruments when needed.

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 6
b Schiotz Tonometer Yes Yes 4
c Direct Opthalmoscope Yes Yes 2
d Indirect Opthalmoscope Yes Yes 2
e 90 D lens Yes Yes 2
f 20 D lens Yes Yes 2
g Gonioprism Yes Yes 1
h Bjerum’s screen Yes Yes 3
i Hess chart screen Yes Yes 2
j Material for diplopia chart Yes Yes 1
k Red green goggles Yes Yes 1
Refraction
m Snellen test type Yes Yes 1
n Near vision testing(Jaeger or Snellen) Yes Yes 1
o Streak Retinoscope Yes
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 Yes 1
c Laser unit for retinal coagulation Yes Yes 1
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 Yes 2
c Automated Vitrectomy Yes Yes 1
d Bipolar Cautery Yes Yes 1
e Steam Autoclave Yes Yes 2
f Flash/Speed Autoclave Yes Yes 2
g Suction Machine Yes Yes 6
h Oxygen Cylinder with nasal canula Yes Yes 2
i Endotracheal intubation Yes
j Ambu bag Yes
k Laryngoscope Yes Yes 1
l BP Machine Yes Yes 6
m Stethoscope Yes Yes 6
Surgical Instruments
o Cataract surgical sets Yes Yes 3
p DCR set Yes Yes 3
q Chalazion I/C set Yes
r Enucleation and Evisceration set Yes
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: 37

Senior Ophthalmologist: 2

Junior Ophthalmologist: 1

Refractionist: 1

Optometrist: 1

Outpatient Nurse: 4

Ward Nurse: 6

Theatre Nurse: 4

Professional Degree: Diploma in Ophthalmology

Administrative Human Resources:

Administrator: 1

Eye Camp Coordinator: 2

Administrative support staff: 1

House keeper: 4

Cleaner: 4

Driver: 1

Security Staff: 1

Biomedical/Equipment Technician: 2

Counselor: 2

Record keeping System: both in Papers and in Computers

Service Area

This hospital provides diagnosis services.

Provided Services:

  1. Refractive Error
  2. Cataract
  3. Glaucoma

Referral System: They refer their patients to the specialized hospitals for complicated cases. They refer their patients to other hospitals for disorder of retina and vitrous and complicated pediatric cases. They arrange the refarrel by providing ambulance to the patients.

They coordinate their Primary Eye Care center and they have CME program. They follow up their patients regularly

Number of Cataract Operation in last 2 weeks: 30

Workload Estimation

Number of Beds in Hospital: 500

Effective Days for providing services: 365

Surgery per year: 1000

Outdoor patients per year: 54750

New patients per day: 120

Outreach Camp per month: 2

SSTP Training per month: 1

Infrastructure

Mymensingh Medical College & Hospital has OT, OPD, IPP including medical records, optical shop and medical shop. The hospital has 10 wards for eye department and each of them has 4 beds. In the operation theatre 2-3 operations take place every day. Their cleanliness is so so.