NUK established its first Eye Care Programme in 2003 in Agarosindhur Community Hospital with particular focuses on rural women and girls blindness prevention and economic empowerment. This programme has been shifted to an independent, specialized secondary eye Hospital in Kishoreganj district in 2006 titled as Kishoreganj Eye Hospital. Kishoreganj Eye Hospital (KEH) is a secondary eye care provider in greater Kishoreganj district, endow with the high quality eye care to the 3.2 million rural folk’s dense seventeen upazilas of Dhaka Division is about 110 km away from the capital. This 26 bedded hospital is build up in 14 May 2006 at the rural areas with the financial and strategic supports from CBM, Germany. KEH is engage to promote the community ophthalmology to achieve the Vison2020 goals declared by WHO. The hospital has always been at the forefront of every community based ophthalmic care in Kishoreganj has several firsts to its credit. KEH is engaged in conducting frequent outreach eye camps, free vision screening and awareness rising on eye programs for school children, under privileged folks focusing on rural women and girls of all age group and doing large no. of cataract surgeries, for reducing avoidable blindness and early childhood blindness from the region, KEH developed an excellent team of skilled mid-level ophthalmic staff, ophthalmologist and surgeons, to assist in its growth plans

To eliminate all avoidable and preventable blindness from the Kishoregonj district.

Prevention & Control the Avoidable Blindness through providing the high quality eye care services at the grass root level in Bangladesh.