VARD Eye Hospital, Sunamganj, Sylhet
|Facility Identification
Division: Sylhet
District: Shunamgonj
District Code:
Facility Type: Non Government Hospital
Establishment Year: 2003
Type of Hospital: Eye Hospital
Category: Secondary Level Hospital
Size of the Hospital: The hospital has its own land. The size of the land is 30 shatak.
Funding: They have regular source of funding from Government of Japan and Sight Saver. And they will provide this financial aid till 2015.
Patient Information
Patient Type: Male and Female Both
Average number of patients per day: 150
Patient number in last year: More than 10000
Payment Provided by: Patients. In case of poor patients, sometimes the hospital provides free treatment to them.
Equipments and Instruments
By buy their instruments by themselves according to their regulations.
Sl No |
Equipments |
Available |
Functioning |
Total Number |
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Available and observed | Available but not observed | Not Available | Yes | No | Don’t Know | |||
A | OPD | |||||||
a | Slit Lamp | yes | yes | |||||
b | Schiotz Tonometer | yes | yes | |||||
c | Direct Opthalmoscope | yes | yes | |||||
d | Indirect Opthalmoscope | yes | yes | |||||
e | 90 D lens | yes | yes | |||||
f | 20 D lens | yes | yes | |||||
g | Gonioprism | yes | yes | |||||
h | Bjerum’s screen | yes | ||||||
i | Hess chart screen | yes | yes | |||||
j | Material for diplopia chart | yes | yes | |||||
k | Red green goggles | yes | ||||||
Refraction | ||||||||
m | Snellen test type | yes | yes | |||||
n | Near vision testing(Jaeger or Snellen) | yes | yes | |||||
o | Streak Retinoscope | yes | yes | |||||
p | Trial Frame and trial case | yes | yes | |||||
q | Prism bar | yes | yes | |||||
r | Refractometer | yes | yes | |||||
s | A-scan | yes | yes | |||||
t | Keratometer | yes | yes | |||||
B | Advancer secondary eye care | |||||||
a | FFA including Fundus camera | yes | ||||||
b | YAG Laser with slit lamp adapter | yes | yes | |||||
c | Laser unit for retinal coagulation | yes | yes | |||||
d | Exophthalmometer | yes | ||||||
e | B-Scan | yes | yes | |||||
C | OT | |||||||
a | Operating Microscope with co-axial illumination & focus control | yes | yes | |||||
b | PHACO Machine | yes | yes | |||||
c | Automated Vitrectomy | yes | ||||||
d | Bipolar Cautery | yes | yes | |||||
e | Steam Autoclave | yes | yes | |||||
f | Flash/Speed Autoclave | yes | ||||||
g | Suction Machine | yes | yes | |||||
h | Oxygen Cylinder with nasal canula | yes | yes | |||||
i | Endotracheal intubation | yes | ||||||
j | Ambu bag | yes | ||||||
k | Laryngoscope | yes | ||||||
l | BP Machine | yes | yes | |||||
m | Stethoscope | yes | 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 | yes | |||||
b | Rimless & Supraframes grooving machine | yes | yes | |||||
c | Lensometer | yes | yes | |||||
d | Trial set (Manual power check) | yes | yes |
Human Resources
Total Human Resources: 35
Senior Ophthalmologist: 2
Junior Ophthalmologist: 2
Rifractionist: 2
Outpatient Nurse: 1
Ward Nurse: 3
Theatre Nurse: 3
Name of the Ophthalmologists: 1. Dr. B. K.M Sanwar
2. Dr.K.M Shahriar
3. Dr. Rabiul Islam Akand
4. Dr. M Ajijul Hoque
Professional Degree: Diploma in Ophthalmology, FCPS
Training taken from: Islamia Eye Hospital
Name of the training: Pediatric Ophthalmology, ILO, Phaco
Administrative Human Resources:
Administrator: 1
Eye Camp Coordinator: 2
Administrative support staff: 4
House Keeper: 3
Cleaner: 7
Driver: 1
Security Staff: 2
Biomedical/ Equipment Technician: 1
Counselor: 1
Record keeping System: Both in Paper and Computer.
Service Area
This hospital provides diagnosis services.
Provided Services:
1. Refractive Error
2. Cataract
3. GIucoma
4. Trauma
Referral System: They refer their patients to the specialized hospitals like NIO, Islamia Eye hospital 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 vehicle service to send the patients to the referred organizations
Number of Cataract Operation in last 2 weeks: 234
Workload Estimation
Number of Beds in Hospital: 60
Effective Days for providing services: 300
Surgery per year: 9000
Patients per year in outdoor: 70000
New patients come every day: 130
Infrastructure
They have OT and OPD, IPP including medical records, optical shop and medical shop. They have 5 wards and each ward has 12 dedicated beds. The average number of operation is 30-35 per day in this hospital. Size of the ward is 400 sq ft and the office area is 200sq ft. According to them their hospital’s cleanliness is very good and they have continuous water, gas and electricity supply.