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Eye Hospitals

  • Sagarmatha Choudhary Eye Hospital

    Sagarmahta Choudhary Eye Hospital
    A child after receiving
    sight restoration surgery.
    Sagarmatha Choudhary Eye Hospital (SCEH), Lahan started as a small eye care unit 25 years ago, is today a high volume treatment centre, which provides high quality comprehensive eye care services at a cost affordable to a huge population in eastern Nepal and northern India. SCEH has opened its branch hospital in Biratnagar with the name Biratnagar Eye Hospital (BEH).

    Outpatients
    • Total patients: 1,01,460
    • New patients: 94,378
    • Follow-up patients: 7,082
    • Indian patients: 70,740
    • Nepalese patients: 30,720
    Surgeries
    • Cataract surgeries SICS (adult) : 28,504
    • Cataract surgeries with PHACO : 5,496
    • Paediatric cataract surgeries : 511
    • Trabeculectomy : 1,406
    • Dacryocystectomy : 561
    • Dacryocystorhinostomy : 496
    Retinal Surgeries:
    • RD : 13
    • D. Laser : 696
    • Cyclo photocoagulation : 189
    • BMV : 156
    Laser procedures:
    • Nd. YAG capsulotomy : 555
    • Nd. YAG PI : 353
    Total : 908
    • Others : 2,272
    Total : 41,208

    Super- specialty Services
    • Paediatric Department
    • Service Delivery
    • A child after receiving sight restoration surgery.
    • Vitreo-Retinal Department
    • Glaucoma Department
    • Corneal Ulcer Department
    • Low Vision Department
 

  • December 6 2011
    Two separate Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) were signed on December 5, 2011 by the Embassy of India, Kathmandu with Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh (NNJS) for providing grant assistance of NRs. 4.42 crores to NNJS for eye care programme in various districts of Nepal during the year 2011-2012. The MOU will cover the cost of conducting over 15,000 cataract surgeries and also provide over 9,300 optical devices to vision impaired children through mobile screening camps to be held in various schools of Nepal as a ‘National Eye Sight Programme’. India will provide additional assistance of NRs. 0.18 crores for conducting 1000 Trachoma surgeries to the NNJS during the year 2011-2012.

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