Netrakona Sadar Hospital

Facility Identification

Division: Dhaka

District: Netrokona

District Code: 72

Facility Type: Government Hospital

Establishment Year: 1922

Type of Hospital: Mixed Hospital

Category: Secondary Level Hospital

Size of the Hospital: The hospital have it’s own land. 7 Acres

Patient Information

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

Average number of patients per day: 110

Patient number in last year: 33000

Payment Provided by: Government and Patients.

Equipments and Instruments

By calling tender and through government policies they buy their 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 Yes 4
b Schiotz Tonometer Yes Yes 2
c Direct Opthalmoscope Yes Yes 1
d Indirect Opthalmoscope Yes Yes 1
e 90 D lens Yes Yes 1
f 20 D lens Yes Yes 1
g Gonioprism Yes Yes 1
h Bjerum’s screen Yes Yes 4
i Hess chart screen Yes Yes 4
j Material for diplopia chart Yes Yes 3
k Red green goggles Yes
Refraction
m Snellen test type Yes Yes 2
n Near vision testing(Jaeger or Snellen) Yes Yes 2
o Streak Retinoscope Yes
p Trial Frame and trial case Yes
q Prism bar Yes
r Refractometer Yes Yes 2
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 Yes 1
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 Yes 1
c Automated Vitrectomy Yes
d Bipolar Cautery Yes Yes 1
e Steam Autoclave Yes Yes 1
f Flash/Speed Autoclave Yes
g Suction Machine Yes Yes 1
h Oxygen Cylinder with nasal canula Yes Yes 4
i Endotracheal intubation Yes
j Ambu bag Yes
k Laryngoscope Yes
l BP Machine Yes Yes 6
m Stethoscope Yes Yes 6
Surgical Instruments
o Cataract surgical sets Yes Yes 2
p DCR set Yes Yes 2
q Chalazion I/C set Yes Yes 1
r Enucleation and Evisceration set Yes Yes 1
D Optical dispensing instruments  
a Manual Edging set Yes Yes 2
b Rimless & Supraframes grooving machine Yes Yes 2
c Lensometer Yes Yes 1
d Trial set (Manual power check) Yes

Human Resources

Total Human Resources: 45

Senior Ophthalmologist: 2

Junior Ophthalmologist: 2

Refractionist: 1

Optometrist:1

Outpatient Nurse: 6

Ward Nurse: 8

Theatre Nurse: 6

Name of the Ophthalmologists: 1. Dr. Newas Sharif

  1. Dr. Adnan Hossain

Professional Degree: Diploma in Ophthalmology, MS, FCPS

Professional Training: Pediatric Ophthalmology

Training taken from: NIO

Administrative Human Resources:

Administrator: 1

Eye Camp Coordinator: 1

Administrative support staff: 1

House Keeper: 4

Cleaner: 6

Driver: 2

Security Staff: 2

Biomedical/Equipment Technician: 1

Counselor: 1

Record keeping System: Papers

Service Area

This hospital provides diagnosis services.

Provided Services:

  1. Refractive Error
  2. Cataract
  3. Glaucoma
  4. Trauma

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. They provide ambulance service to send the patients to the referred organizations.

Number of Cataract Operation in last 2 weeks: 30

Workload Estimation

Number of Beds in Hospital: 100

Effective Days for providing services: 300

Surgery per year: 2400

Patients per year in outdoor: 45000

New patients per day: 85

Infrastructure

They have OT and OPD, IPP including medical records, optical shop and medical shop. They have 2 wards and 15 dedicated beds for eye department. And the average number of operation is 3 per day in this hospital. According to them their hospital’s cleanliness is so so and they do not have continuous water, gas and electricity supplies.