Ctg eye hospital comes to aid of diabetic patients
Chittagong Eye Infirmary and Training Complex (CEITC) that has been a relief to the eye patients over the last 26 years now comes up with a new project to provide eye-care to diabetic patients who are very much susceptible to different eye diseases, particularly diabetic retinopathy.
The new project titled “Diabetic retinopathy education, training and treatment” has been taken with the cooperation of World Diabetic Foundation (WDF) and Helen Keller International (HKI).
Under the project CEITC would give treatment to diabetic retinopathy patients, impart proper knowledge to both the patients and their attendances about different aspects of the disease through counselling.
It would also prepare eye-care professionals, including ophthalmologists, with proper training under the project to help gradual expansion of such eye-care service to retinopathy patients, said the sources in CEITC.
Primarily Feni Diabetic Hospital has been included in the project while the other district diabetic hospitals and eye-care centres would be brought under a network and activities of this project, they said.
“We have already launched primary activities of providing treatment in latest tele medicine system through internet under the project set up in collaboration with international organisations like WDF and HKI in Bangladesh for providing treatment to eye disease resulting from diabetes,” said CEITC Managing Trustee Prof Dr Rabiul Husain.
“To help diagnose retinopathy and provide timely treatment under the project patients suffering from diabetes for the last five years in the enlisted hospitals would undergo screening. If any one is found attacked with Diabetic Retinopathy there are arrangements to provide him treatment under the project,” said Prof Rabiul.
Sources said equipped with latest surgical and other necessary instruments and facilities the hospital, locally known as Pahartali eye hospital, provided treatment to over 31 lakh patients and conducted surgical operation restoring eyesight to 3.25 lakh patients over the last 26 years since 1983.
The hospital at present has strength to conduct 16,000 surgeries and provide eye treatment to three lakh out patients every year, they said.
CEITC conducts surgical operations on some 70 eye-patients in six modern and spacious Operation Theatres (OTs), with over ten patients being operated upon in each OT daily, said the sources.
The hospital has arrangement to conduct cornea transplantation with the help of an international eye bank. The US-based ORBIS related itself with the service of the hospital providing electronic and other apparatus for the paediatric department and training up manpower for the hospital.
The paediatric department is designed to have inter-link with some high standard US eye centres to get advice and suggestion for the treatment of critical diseases.
Alongside institutional treatments the CEITC also provides treatment and eye care services through different outreach activities.
To help further expansion and ensure quality eye treatment, the hospital introduced different post-graduate courses recognised both at home and abroad. It is also approved for conducting FCPS courses and providing certificates for Diploma in Community Ophthalmology (DCO) and four-year BSC (graduate) Optometry Course under Chittagong University, said the sources.
Besides, it has been running different training courses to help develop workforces and eye-care professionals, said the sources.
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