Project - BEH
District Blindness Control Program with BEH
- Activities:
- Cataract case detection and referral for surgeries.
- Partners:
- Bangladesh Eye Hospital, Bank Asia
- Duration:
- January 06- January 2007
Aims and objectives:
- to identify the blind children from their community and to provide high quality surgery and postoperative treatment to the cataract child patients referred by CSF to Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Bangladesh Eye Hospital
- to detect about 430 blind children and refer approx. 135 for cataract surgeries including follow-up treatment in remote Chapai Nawabgonj district.
- to develop a database of identified and examined blind children at the CSF
- to use this blind and cured children database for their future treatment, follow-up and case study.
