Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital (Shahtho Sheba Hospital)

Facility Identification

Division: Rangpur

District: Thakurgaon

District Code: 94

Facility Type: Non government Hospital

Establishment Year: 1989

Type of Hospital: Mixed Hospital

Category: Secondary Level Hospital

Size of the land: .71 acre

Funding: The hospital gets funding from different donors for eye care project, outreach project, infra structure, capacity building, and for buying equipments.

Patient Information

All types of patients come here to take treatment.

Average number of patients per day: 100

Patient number in last year: 25000

Payment Provided by: Patients

Equipments and Instruments

The hospital buys the equipments and instruments by calling tender, they gets help from the donors to buy the new 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 2
b Schiotz Tonometer Yes Yes 1
c Direct Opthalmoscope Yes Yes 6
d Indirect Opthalmoscope Yes Yes 1
e 90 D lens Yes Yes 2
f 20 D lens Yes Yes 2
g Gonioprism Yes
h Bjerum’s screen Yes
i Hess chart screen Yes Yes 1
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 5
o Streak Retinoscope Yes Yes 3
p Trial Frame and trial case Yes Yes 4
q Prism bar Yes Yes 1
r Refractometer Yes Yes 2
s A-scan Yes Yes 1
t Keratometer Yes Yes 1
B Advancer secondary eye care  
a FFA including Fundus camera Yes Yes 1
b YAG Laser with slit lamp adapter Yes Yes 1
c Laser unit for retinal coagulation Yes
d Exophthalmometer Yes
e B-Scan Yes Yes 1
C OT  
a Operating Microscope with co-axial illumination & focus control Yes Yes 1
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
g Suction Machine Yes Yes 1
h Oxygen Cylinder with nasal canula Yes Yes 1
i Endotracheal intubation Yes Yes 1
j Ambu bag Yes
k Laryngoscope Yes
l BP Machine Yes Yes 3
m Stethoscope Yes Yes 3
Surgical Instruments
o Cataract surgical sets Yes Yes 10
p DCR set Yes Yes 3
q Chalazion I/C set Yes Yes 3
r Enucleation and Evisceration set Yes Yes 3
D Optical dispensing instruments  
a Manual Edging set Yes
b Rimless & Supraframes grooving machine Yes
c Lensometer Yes Yes 1
d Trial set (Manual power check) Yes Yes 1

Human Resources

Total Human Resources: 32

Senior Ophthalmologist: 2

Refractionist: 2

Outpatient Nurse: 1

Ward Nurse: 5

Theatre Nurse: 1

Name of the Ophthalmologists: 1. Dr. Islam Hossain

  1. Arif Chowdhury

Professional Degree: Diploma in Ophthalmology, MCPS, MS

Professional Training: Pediatric Ophthalmology-6 months, Medical Retina- 3 months

Training provided by: Islamia Eye Hospital, Madraz, India

Administrative Human Resources:

Administrator: 1

Administrative Support Staff: 4

House keeper: 1

Cleaner: 5

Driver: 3

Security Staff: 5

Biomedical/Equipment Technician: 1

Counselor: 1

Record keeping System: both in papers and in computers.

Service Area

Provided Services:

  1. Refractive Error
  2. Cataract
  3. Glaucoma
  4. Trauma
  5. Lacrimal Surgery
  6. Medical Strabismus

Referral System: They refer their patients to specialized hospitals for complicated cases. They mainly refer their patients for complicated pediatric cases and sometimes they arranges the referrel.

They coordinate their primary eye care center. They follow up their patients regularly.

Number of Cataract Operation: 15

Workload Estimation

Number of Bed: 30

Effective Days for providing services: 300

Patients in Outdoor per year: 20000

New patients per day: 20

Number of outreach camp: 4

Number of SSTP Training: 4 in 1 year

Infrastructure

They have OT, OPD, IPP including medical records, optical shop and medical shop. They have 3 wards and each of them have 6 beds. In an average 15 operations take place per week and the size of the operation theatre is 2000 sq ft. And the size of the ward is 1200 sq ft. The hospital has uninterrupted water, gas and electricity supply and their cleaniliness is very good.