Gausul Azam BNSB Eye Hospital, Dinajpur.
Address: Newtown, Dinajpur-5200.
Tel- 88 0531 64033,
Email: bnsbdinajpur@gmail.com;
bnsbeyehospitaldinajpur.org
What is BNSB?
Realizing the paucity of Ophthalmic services in the country and the necessity of urgent efforts in this sector, a group of medical professionals and social workers took initiative to form a voluntary organization named ‘Bangladesh National Society for the Blind’ in the year 1976.
There are Nine BNSB Eye Hospitals in Bangladesh. Those are BNSB Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Dinajpur, Mymenshing, Moulovibazar, Sherajgonj, Chandpur & Potuakhali.
Vision:
To reduce the curse of blindness in the society we live in.
Mission:
The mission of the organization is to make people (irrespective of caste, creed, Social, education and economic condition) aware about eye care and provide specialized treatment for eye patient so that they enjoy clear vision. In view of points the mission is:
- Prevention of blindness through creating mass awareness and early prevention
- Creating facilities for appropriate treatment
- Rehabilitation of blind and visually handicapped people who can neither is helped by treatment or surgery.
Level/ Type of Hospital:
Secondary level
Diagnostic, cataract surgical services, other minor surgical procedures, Pediatric, Glaucoma, Medical Retina, low vision sub-specialty services available.
Strategies:
- Strengthening advocacy
- Infrastructure and technology development
- Human resource development
- Reducing the disease burden
- Improving coordination and partnership
- Programmatic issues.
- Socio-culture, logistic and financial issues for beneficiaries
- Sustainability
- Social inclusion
- Comprehensive eye service
- Targeting poorest of the poor.
- Monitoring & evaluation.
Organization’s Values:
Bangladesh National Society for the Blind (BNSB) Dinajpur (Gausul Azam BNSB Eye Hospital, Dinajpur) has been initiated since 1976 to offer service to the people of Northern Districts of Bangladesh. The services aimed at Eye treatment to the poor, helpless and wretched persons and aware them on blindness, malnutrition and its prevention. The hospital has been established with the dedication of some local Patrons and philanthropic people to continue eye care services. In 1978 the Government of Bangladesh allotted 1.89 Acres of land in Housing Estate Dinajpur for the Hospital in recognition of the services to the suffering humanity. In the same year Rajshahi Development Board donated Tk. 1,00,000/= to lay the Foundation of the Hospital Building. The great benevolent, Philanthropist and businessman of Dinajpur late Golem Mustafa donated Tk 12,00,000/= for the Building construction & it covered the expenses of the ground floor and up to the roof level of the 1st floor. The Hospital has been named Gausul Azam BNSB Eye Hospital according to his wishes. Day by day the hospital activities spread all over the country and patient from different parts of the country started coming to receive eye treatment and care. Alhaj Dr. Samiruddin Ahmed, Ex General Secretary, requested the President of Donor Agency Andheri Hilfe of Germany through CARITAS for meaningful help to this establishment. On his special request, the Chairman of Andheri Hilfe of Germany Miss. Rosi Golman came to visit the Hospital. She met with the members of the Executive Committee and sanctioned a grant of Tk. 35,00,000/= for completion of the Hospital Building. Thereafter, the management completed a 36 bedded Eye Hospital including six Cabins and now it has more than 100 bed eye hospital with 14 cabins.
The Hospital is running by the guidance and advice of the Executive Committee consisting of 14 Members. There are 81 Employees including 11 Eye specialist Doctors (Ophthalmologists) working in this hospital.
Hospital front view & gate
Inner View of Hospital
Executive committee/ Governing Board of the organization:
Sl. No. | Name | Position | Occupation | |
1 | ????????????? | Chairman | Deputy Commissioner, Dinajpur (Ex Officio post) | |
2 | Mohammad Abdul Latif Advocate | Vice chairman | Advocate (Ex MP) | |
3 | Dr. Chow. Mosaddequl Isdani | General secretary | Doctor | |
4 | Md. Shofiqul Haque chhutu | Asst. General Secretary | Business (Ex Mayor, Dinajpur Municipality) | |
5 | Dr. Md. Janab Ali | Organizing Secretary | Advocate (Ex MP) | |
6 | Suja Ur Rab | Treasurer | Business | |
7 | Ms. Malake Pervin Rahman | Member, Executive Committee | Business | |
8 | Md. Maharul Islam Advocate | Member, Executive | Business | |
9 | Abdus Sobur Chowdhury | Member, Executive Committee | Business & Social worker | |
10 | Dr. Md.Liakot Ali | Member, Executive Committee | Advocate | |
11 | Dr. Md. Ahad Ali | Member, executive Committee | Private job | |
12 | Md. Salim Akhtar Chowdhury | Member, executive Committee | Social Worker | |
13 | Istakul Alam Chowdhury Prince | Member, Executive Committee | Principal, Homeo Medical College & Hospital, Dinajpur | |
14 | Sayed Zahingir Alam | Member, Executive Committee | Mayor, Dinajpur Municipality (Ex Officio post) | |
Brief about organizational structure (Organogram) with clearly defined lines of authority and responsibility:
General Body Consists of General & life Members (654 persons) |
Executive Committee/ Governing Body Consists of 14 Members among the General & life Members |
General Secretary (Act as the representative of Governing body) Look over the day to day activities of the hospital. Hospital activities divided into two categories i.e. Medical side Management & Non Medical side Management. Both side Chief person are liable to the General Secretary |
Medical Management (Post & designation) | Responsibilities in brief | Nonmedical Management (Post & designation) | Responsibilities in brief | |
Sr. Consultannt-01 | Patients consultation & operation (especially Phaco & SICS) and Medical related personnel supervise | Manager Administration-01 | Conduct & communication with donors, partners and various stakeholders; Arrange & conducting all kinds of meeting & steps taken to implement the decision of the meetings, Programs Planning, Budgeting, supervision & Report writing, Provide logistic supports to different sections of the hospital, purchase, Staff supervise, deals of personnel matters, Liaison with all public ,media, stakeholder, media, Bill voucher check and approval etc. | |
Consultant-3 posts | Patients consultation & operation (especially Phaco & SICS) | Sr. Asst. Accounts officer-01 | Act as in-charge of accounts department | |
Jr. Consultant-01 post | Patients consultation & operation (especially SICS & minor) | Asst. Accounts officer-01 | Accounts works | |
Asst. Surgeon-03 posts | Patients consultation & operation (especially SICS & minor) | Program officer-01 | Organize & supervise Outreach activities | |
Medical officer-3 posts | Patients consultation & operation (especially minor) | Store Keeper & accounts Assistant-2 persons | Store keeping and accounts works. | |
Departmental in-charge like\OPD, IPD, OT, Biometry, Refraction, orthoptist, paramedic, Nurses | Medical related service provides and patients take care in their areas. | IHMS, Registration-3, Counselor-2 | IHMS, Patients registration, Admission and other fees collection, counselling etc. | |
Below staff are supervised by the both sides (specially Sr. Consultant) | Below staff are supervised by the both sides (specially Manager Administration) |
Male & Female helper-16 | Patients take care |
Driver-2 | Driving |
Watch man-5 | Guard and watch |
Electrician-1 | Electrical functions look over of the hospital |
Peon-1 | Supporting works |
Gardener-1 | Garden maintenance |
Cook-2 | Food Cooking |
Cleaner-6 | Cleaning of hospital premises |
Hospital Activities:
Now the hospital is operating its functions in the following seven different ways i.e.-
1) Hospital based treatment program.
- Mobile Eye camp Program.
- School Students (Primary Level) Sight Testing Program.
- Teachers training program on primary Eye Care
- Primary Eye Care Center
- Poor patients support program
- Human Resource Development Program.
- Hospital based treatment Program: The program is divided into two departments as- Indoor & Outdoor. In Outdoor Department average 300/350 patients are received various types of eye treatment daily. In OPD Doctors examined the patient who need admission into the Indoor department Doctors suggest them admission into its Indoor department. After admission, Doctors make successful Operation for various eye diseases such as Cataract, Glaucoma, DCT, DCR Ptyrigium etc. and implanting of Intra Ocular Lens (Artificial) (IOL). This IOL and other Operations are done with minimum cost and the Poor patients are treated/ operated with free of cost. We make diagnosis and provide treatment to the patient by modern and latest machineries and instruments such as Autorefractometre (Computer) YAG Laser, A-Scan, B-Scan, Phaco, Visual Field Analyzer, Vitractometer etc.
2) Mobile Eye camp Program: This Program aimed for providing Cataract & other operations, Medicine and Spectacles supply to the poor Patients with free of cost all over the Northern Districts under Rajshahi & Rangpur Division. Annually we organized average 25 Eye camps where we treated average 20,000 patients yearly.
3) Mobile School Sight Testing and Blindness Prevention Program:
Under this program, more than 40 Primary Schools covering average 15,000 Students tested their eye sight and supplied them Medicine & Spectacles with free of cost as per their need in every year. If needed necessary operation done with free of cost to the students.
- Teachers training program on primary Eye Care: The Hospital organized day long training program with the primary level school teachers for a community eye health awareness purpose for the prevention & treatment of eye diseases
- Primary Eye care Center (PEC):
To give door step eye care support to the distressed people, establishment of PEC is a new idea. Basically it is a sub center situated in Upa-zila (Thana) level where the community people come for eye treatment and operation easily. One ophthalmic paramedic/ Refractionist, Male & Female Helper Guard & Cleaner stays there & gives treatment. In case of surgery the patients are advised to attend another specific day. Recently BNSB Eye Hospital Dinajpur established one Primary Eye Care Center (PEC) for promoting eye health, control and reduce the blindness in the rural communities.
6) Poor Patients Support Program:
Under this program we give support to the poor patients with full and partial free for operation and also treatment. Bangladesh is poor and developing country. Above 70% people live below the poverty line. Dinajpur- Rangpur region is comparatively high poverty area among the country. Poverty is a cause of blindness & eye disease. Due to this cause the number of poor patients in this region is high. Every day huge number of eye patients comes to the hospital for free treatment/ operation. And we give them treatment, pathological tests and operation with free of cost. To support these poor patients need fund for this program.
7) Human Resource Development (HRD):
To develop high and mid level medical and administrative people for constant services in this sector is the objectives in this program. In the eye care field one of the major barrier is shortage of trained eye care professional. To address this vital issue, various government and non-government medical institutions started comprehensive training programs on Ophthalmology like Diploma and Master Degree in Ophthalmology. We trained our staff from those institutions.
Hospital Administrative policy:
The hospital is running by the 14 member’s executive committee and the General Secretary is the main person to look over the hospital activities day to day.
The General Secretary shall execute the different programs of the Hospital in consultation with the Executive Committee.
He shall convene all meeting of the Governing body from time to time in the manners stated earlier and write proceeding of the meeting and get them duly signed by the president who preside over the meeting.
He shall prepare the Voter list and cause its publication in the manner stated herein before.
He shall prepare annual budget of the hospital in consultation with the members of the executive committee and place it before the general body for approval, manner stated herein before.
He shall get the account of the Hospital/ samity audited in time and place the audit report before the executive committee for discussion and then submit in the general body for discussion and approval, manner stated herein before.
He shall prepare annual general report of the hospital and place it before the Executive Committee for discussion and then place it in the general body for approval and then forward various stakeholder/ partners.
In the event of absence of the General Secretary due to illness, resignation or other unavoidable
circumstances the Assistant General Secretary shall discharge and continue to discharge all\
functions of the General Secretary till a General Secretary is come back.
All these functions is continued and implemented by the active cooperation of Sr. Consultant and
Manager Administration of the hospital.
Partner Organization uses a standard computerized accounting package. Has dedicated computer for financial software?
Yet, we are not computerized our accounts department, we are talking to the various software company to computerized the accounts department. Hope we shall be able to computerize our financial system with dedicated software.
But we have Integrated Hospital Management System (IHMS) Software. Patient’s registration, Admission, Discharge, pathological tests, Data record keeps and maintain by this software. We have received this system software from Aravind Eye Care System Madurai, india.
How to manage store and how many staff for maintaining the store?:
We have separate store for medicine and stationery items. We maintain the above stores manually. One staff is responsible for this job, but if he feels pressure any time to conduct his job we give him support by another staff.
Bank accounts and cheque signatories are authorized by the organization’s Board of Directors or Trustees or other authorized persons:
Our main accounts having at The City Bank Ltd. and IFIC Bank Ltd. Dinajpur Branch, Dinajpur. As per constitution all Bank accounts signatories will be the General Secretary and Treasurer of the Governing Body. They are:
- Chowdhury Mosaddequl isdani, General Secretary
- Suja Ur Rab Chowdhury, Treasurer.
The organization has regular independent audits:
Yes we have audited our accounts and finance every year by the registered Charted Accounting firms. Besides we have international Audit Sub-Committee for auditing the accounts and programs also regularly.
The organization is appropriately registered as a legal entity under various acts of the local laws:
Sr. No. | Particulars | Registration/ Tin no. | Date & valid up to |
i | Registration from Social Welfare | 162/84 | valid till the organizations life |
2 | Registration from NGO Affairs Bureau | 1917 | September, 2014 |
3 | Director General of Health Service | 4028 | June 2015 |
4 | Income tax registration: | 452-200-0014 | – |
5 | Trade licence, Dinajpur Municipality | 27 | 11/03/2010 |
Fire Service Registration | 0000003537/2015 | 20/12/2015 |
Ophthalmologists and Medical Officers (Doctors):
Sl. No. | Name and BMDC registration number | BMDC Reg. No, | Designation | Training received | Remarks |
1 | Dr. Md. Ansar Ali | 17031 | Consultant | SICS, Phaco | – |
2 | Dr. Tozzakkaruzzaman | 17512 | Consultant | SICS, Phaco, Glaucoma | – |
3 | Dr. Ileas Ali Khan | 23098 | Consultant | SICS, Fellowship in Ped. Ophthalmology | – |
4 | Dr. Wahoda Begum | 26230 | Asst. Surgeon | SICS, Ped. Ophthalmology & Cataract Fellowship | – |
5 | Dr. Kakoli Choudhury | 42299 | Asst. Surgeon | SICS, Under Ped. fellowship training | – |
6 | Dr. Md. Ashraful Khaleque | 39924 | Asst. Surgeon | SICS | – |
7 | Dr. Mollah Jalal Hossain | 33658 | Medical officer Under MS Course | – | – |
8 | Dr. Niaz Murshed khan | 53497 | MBBS | – | – |
9 | Dr. Md. Tanimul Islam | MBBS |
PEC & Vision Center: Actually Gausul Azam BNSB Eye Hospital, Dinajpur has no branch hospital, but we have a Primary Eye Care (PEC) Center at Gaibandha District and a Vision center at Khansama Upazila, Dinajpur District.
Address of PEC & Vision Center:
PEC | Vision Center |
Nuniagari, (opposite of Shath Cinema hall) Upa Zila- Polashbari, Dist- Gaibandha. | Pakerhat, Upazila- Khansama District: Dinajpur |
Record Keeping Systems:
We have a Integrated Hospital Management System (IHMS) Software. Patient’s registration, Admission, Discharge, pathological tests, Data record keeping and maintain by this software. We have received this system software from Aravind Eye Care System Madurai, India.
Information regarding land: 189.00 decimal
Information regarding hospital building: 16,000.00 square fits.
Expected working area. Name of district and upazila:
Whole North Bengal is our working areas because Rangpur & Rajshahi division’s eye patients come to our hospital for treatment/ operations. Besides we conduct mobile IOL Eye camps in this two divisions all districts and upazillas.
MILESTONE OF BNSB DINAJPUR.
1976 Organized Rural remote Eye Camp Program
1976 25- bed Eye hospital in a rental house starts functioning.
- Government of Bangladesh allocated 1.89 Acres of land for
hospital building.
1978 Rajshahi Development board donated Tk. 1,00,000.00 and Late Mr. Golam Mostafa the great Benevolent & Philanthropist donated Tk.12,00,000.00 for building construction and Hospital foundation stone laid down.
1980 BNSB Eye Hospital shifted to its own building.
1989 Miss Rosi Gollman, Founder president of Andheri Helfi e.V Visited the Hospital and donated Tk.35,00,000.00 for completion the Building construction.
1997 Ocular Microbiological Laboratory started functioning.
1997 Begin Intraocular Lens (IOL) implementation on trial basis.
1998 Introduce full scale Intraocular Lens (IOL) implementation service with IOL Clinic
- Introduce Manual Small Incision Suture Less Cataract Surgery (SISC)
- Establishing YAG Laser and Auto Refractometer.
- Visual Field Analyzer, B-Scan, Phaco Surgery Introduced.
- Separate (Sub-specialty) Pediatric Unit established.
- Established two Vision Centers
2008 Constructed 5 storied new hospital building
2012 Separate (Sub-specialty) Medical Retina Unit established.
2013 Separate (Sub-specialty) Glaucoma Unit established.
Hospital Achievement at a glance:-
Sl No. | Activities | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | From Inception |
1 | Number of patient treated in the outdoor department | 88,518 | 102878 | 1591529 |
2 | Number of patient admitted in the Indoor department | 3440 | 3628 | 65836 |
3 | Number of IOL operation done | 1550 | 1504 | 44588 |
4 | No of PHACO operation done | 586 | 661 | 3411 |
5 | Number of Cataract operation done (ECCE) | 123 | 105 | 19111 |
6 | Number of other operation done | – | 1258 | 20339 |
7 | Number of Eye Camp organized | 40 | 59 | 1475 |
8 | Number of Outdoor Patient treated in Eye camp | 36678 | 54942 | 1543978 |
9 | Number of Indoor Patient Operated in Eye camp (Cataract) | 2414 | 3577 | 40701 |
10 | Number of Schools provided with services | – | 66 | 1537 |
11 | Number of Students examined & treated | 13305 | 13292 | 336944 |
12 | Number of School Teachers Trained | 300 | 300 | 3018 |
13 | Refraction done and prescribed for spectacles | – | 29166 | 370144 |
14 | No. of Patients treated at PEC | 15381 | 18177 | 101299 |
15 | No. of patients operated at PEC IOL | 207 | 213 | 1626 |
Achievement at a glance of Pediatric Unit: Establish on July 2004.
Year |
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Years | Pt. attended |
| Total OPD Pts. | Ortho | PC | ECCE | Corneal | Squint | Pro | Glauco/ | DCR | trea | enclu | other | tersa | Total |
| New | Old | ptic | IOL |
| enjury |
| bing | trabtmy |
| ted | ation |
| rapy |
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2004 | 6574 | 539 | 7113 | 2466 | 30 | 28 | 28 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 132 |
2005 | 10049 | 1940 | 11989 | 2646 | 136 | 37 | 35 | 30 | 64 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 354 |
2006 | 11712 | 3132 | 14844 | 1705 | 348 | 147 | 39 | 42 | 62 | 13 | 1 | 18 | 2 | 29 | 0 | 701 |
2007 | 9244 | 4116 | 13360 | 1882 | 334 | 184 | 52 | 37 | 65 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 4 | 708 |
2008 | 10469 | 5902 | 16371 | 1852 | 1193 | 268 | 59 | 31 | 46 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 1624 |
2009 | 10433 | 4465 | 14898 | 1228 | 327 | 134 | 39 | 21 | 72 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 49 | 0 | 658 |
2010 | 10764 | 4225 | 15162 | 1252 | 231 | 140 | 41 | 29 | 111 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 150 | 0 | 725 |
2011 | 11097 | 4984 | 16081 | 1303 | 197 | 69 | 59 | 27 | 102 | 17 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 76 | 0 | 559 |
2012 | 11779 | 4688 | 16467 | 308 | 160 | 63 | 53 | 32 | 100 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 82 | 0 | 519 |
2013 | 10798 | 4680 | 8556 | 163 | 69 | 23 | 22 | 14 | 59 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 223 |
2014 | 13100 | 5887 | 18987 | 216 | 226 | 34 | 64 | 41 | 108 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 0 | 594 |
2015 | 13677 | 6157 | 19834 | 273 | 267 | 49 | 61 | 37 | 122 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 0 | 635 |
2016 | 15539 | 6313 | 21852 | 396 | 221 | 34 | 56 | 70 | 178 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 120 | 0 | 702 |
Total | 145235 | 57028 | 202263 | 15690 | 3739 | 1210 | 608 | 411 | 1107 | 113 | 57 | 48 | 38 | 805 | 10 | 8144 |
Dr. Chow. Mosaddequl Isdani
General Secretary