Chittagong Bureau :
At the invitation of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and National Eye Care (NEC) under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Orbis’s Flying Eye Hospital – the world’s only U.S.-accredited teaching hospital on board an MD-10 aircraft – has arrived at Chittagong Airport on Thursday afternoon .
It will deliver a 2-week ophthalmic training program and eye care treatment to the deserving patients in Chittagong from November 19 to December 4 next . Hosted by the Chittagong Eye Infirmary and Training Complex (CEITC), a partner hospital of Orbis, this program aims to continue updating the ophthalmic knowledge and skills of eye care professionals in the country through advanced training and technology transfer. It also supports Orbis’s ongoing projects of the National Childhood Blindness Reduction (NCBR) project in the country.
This Flying Eye Hospital program will provide advanced level hands-on training to enhance the surgical skills of doctors at CEITC and from other regions, focusing on various subspecialties.
They include complex cataract, paediatric strabismus and cataract, surgical and medical retina, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), as well as adult and paediatric cornea, external diseases, oculoplastics and oncology. Five workshops, including low vision, neuro-ophthalmology, ophthalmic diagnostic imaging, resident training and basic life support, will be held as well.
Furthermore, by leveraging the high-profile teaching Flying Eye Hospital, Orbis is celebrating the success of blindness prevention for over 30 years with key stakeholders, including the MoHFW, NEC, the Ophthalmological Society of Bangladesh (OSB), as well as CEITC and other partners. It also aims to raise public awareness on the prevention of childhood blindness.This was disclosed by Managing Trusty of Chittagong Eye Hospital Dr Rabiul Hossain, Director of Orbis Dr. J. Barguis and the country Director of Orbis International in Bangladesh Dr. Munir Ahmed at a press conference arranged at Chittagong Eye Infirmary Hospital in city on Friday morning .
Orbis has been working in Bangladesh since 1985, and a permanent office was established in Dhaka in 1999 to support its long-term projects in the country.
Since then, Orbis has achieved remarkable success and many ‘first’ with the support of MoHFW, OSB and our partners to implement the National Eye Care plan and Vision 2020 strategies to reduce avoidable blindness in Bangladesh, such as the first training programmes for optometrists and opticians, the first autonomous eye bank, as well as the first rural vision Centres with paediatric ophthalmology services to villagers.
In 2013, Orbis launched the National Childhood Blindness Reduction Project, which was inaugurated by the honourable President of Bangladesh and our partners, to create comprehensive paediatric eye care services in the country and treatments to children in Bangladesh by 2020, the press meet was told.
At the invitation of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and National Eye Care (NEC) under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Orbis’s Flying Eye Hospital – the world’s only U.S.-accredited teaching hospital on board an MD-10 aircraft – has arrived at Chittagong Airport on Thursday afternoon .
It will deliver a 2-week ophthalmic training program and eye care treatment to the deserving patients in Chittagong from November 19 to December 4 next . Hosted by the Chittagong Eye Infirmary and Training Complex (CEITC), a partner hospital of Orbis, this program aims to continue updating the ophthalmic knowledge and skills of eye care professionals in the country through advanced training and technology transfer. It also supports Orbis’s ongoing projects of the National Childhood Blindness Reduction (NCBR) project in the country.
This Flying Eye Hospital program will provide advanced level hands-on training to enhance the surgical skills of doctors at CEITC and from other regions, focusing on various subspecialties.
They include complex cataract, paediatric strabismus and cataract, surgical and medical retina, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), as well as adult and paediatric cornea, external diseases, oculoplastics and oncology. Five workshops, including low vision, neuro-ophthalmology, ophthalmic diagnostic imaging, resident training and basic life support, will be held as well.
Furthermore, by leveraging the high-profile teaching Flying Eye Hospital, Orbis is celebrating the success of blindness prevention for over 30 years with key stakeholders, including the MoHFW, NEC, the Ophthalmological Society of Bangladesh (OSB), as well as CEITC and other partners. It also aims to raise public awareness on the prevention of childhood blindness.This was disclosed by Managing Trusty of Chittagong Eye Hospital Dr Rabiul Hossain, Director of Orbis Dr. J. Barguis and the country Director of Orbis International in Bangladesh Dr. Munir Ahmed at a press conference arranged at Chittagong Eye Infirmary Hospital in city on Friday morning .
Orbis has been working in Bangladesh since 1985, and a permanent office was established in Dhaka in 1999 to support its long-term projects in the country.
Since then, Orbis has achieved remarkable success and many ‘first’ with the support of MoHFW, OSB and our partners to implement the National Eye Care plan and Vision 2020 strategies to reduce avoidable blindness in Bangladesh, such as the first training programmes for optometrists and opticians, the first autonomous eye bank, as well as the first rural vision Centres with paediatric ophthalmology services to villagers.
In 2013, Orbis launched the National Childhood Blindness Reduction Project, which was inaugurated by the honourable President of Bangladesh and our partners, to create comprehensive paediatric eye care services in the country and treatments to children in Bangladesh by 2020, the press meet was told.
