Approximately 1 million people are blind out of 170 million populations in Bangladesh. Around 50,000 people go blind every year adding to the yearly accumulated figure in Bangladesh. Main causes of blindness are malnutrition, faulty food-habit, lack of education, inadequate eye care, lack of treatment facilities, lack of cautiousness etc. It is estimated that among 90% of blindness is avoidable and it could be cured or prevented with the certain availability of resources and by services.
The prevalence of blindness puts an additional burden on our national economy. Current blindness prevalence rate is l.53% and thus, there are approximately 675,000 blind adults in the country. Among the illiterate male manual workers blindness is much higher compared to non-manual ones. The study has also found that bilateral blindness prevalence rate is highest in Barisal (2.28%) and Khulna (l.97%) divisions, lower in Chittagong (l.43%), Sylhet (1.31%) and Rajshahi (1.21%) and low in Dhaka (1.1
To reduce eye related problems, building awareness to the community people about eye care services. To lead a normal visionary life, providing general eye treatment to the underprivileged people. To restore eye vision, performing successful modern techniques cataract surgery. To lead lifelong happy moment, prevention of child age eye problem and giving curative measures at rural level. To make opportunity for eye treatment of very poor people. To develop series of high and mid level medical team
50% of blindness reduced and aware through these services Acceptance increased towards to the camp Interest for eye checking increased among the mass people Patients attended the treatment Referactive patients get Spectacle 99% operation are successful and operative patients have re-stored eye sight Patients are ready for surgery Operations are successful and operative patients have re-stored eye sight Operations are successful and operative patients have re-stored eye sight
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