Patuakhali Sadar Hospital

Facility Identification

Division: Barisal

District: Patuakhali

District Code: 78

Facility Type: Government Hospital

Establishment Year: 1979

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: 80 (only eye)

Patient number in last year: 30000

Payment Provided by: Government

Equipments and Instruments

The hospital gets equipments and instruments as donation from government and sometimes they call tender to buy the equipments.

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
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   yes 1
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
p Trial Frame and trial case yes   yes 1
q Prism bar yes     yes 1
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   yes 3
b PHACO Machine yes
c Automated Vitrectomy yes
d Bipolar Cautery yes yes 1
e Steam Autoclave yes yes 1
f Flash/Speed Autoclave yes     yes 1
g Suction Machine yes     yes 2
h Oxygen Cylinder with nasal canula     yes
i Endotracheal intubation     yes
j Ambu bag yes
k Laryngoscope yes yes 1
l BP Machine yes     yes 1
m Stethoscope     yes
Surgical Instruments
o Cataract surgical sets yes     yes   1
p DCR set yes     yes   1
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

Human Resources

Total Human Resources: 3 (Only eye)

Senior Ophthalmologist:1

Nurse: 2

These two nurses work for the whole eye department.

Name of the Ophthalmologist: Dr. Joynal Abedin

Professional Degree: Diploma in Ophthalmology, MS

Administrative Human Resources:

Administrator: 2

Administrative support staff: 15

Cleaner: 1

Driver: 2

The administrative support staffs work for the whole hospital not for any specific department.

Record keeping system: Both in Papers and computers.

Service Area

Cataract
Glaucoma
Lacrimal Surgery
Trauma

Referral System: If needed they refer their patients to some specialized hospitals for the complicated cases i.e. surgical strabismus, disorder of retina and vitrous and complicated pediatric cases. They arrange the referral if needed by providing ambulance and they follow up their patients regularly.

Workload Estimation

Number of Bed: 250

Effective Days for providing services: 365 days

Surgery per year: No surgery

Outdoor patients per year: 25000

New patients per day: 10

Infrastructure

They have OT, OPD and optical shop. In the eye department there are 2 dedicated wards for eye department and the wards consists of 8 beds. They have uninterrupted power supply and their cleanliness is good.