Welcome
Kishoreganj Eye Hospital (KEH) a collaborating partner of WHO VISION 2020: Right to sight. Its mission is to provide high quality eye care to the rural poor for prevention and control of avoidable blindness in Bangladesh. It is a secondary eye care provider formally working since 2006 at Kishoreganj district. Its catchments areas covering a population of 25,94,954 from 1794 villages. KEH’s primary target is the grass-roots patients and delivering an intensive eye care services through eye camps and base hospital. It performed different types of surgeries but large volumes of cataract surgeries. Since its inception, the hospital provided the eye care services to 64,691 patients.
Background
Kishoreganj Eye Hospital is a secondary eye care provider in greater Kishoreganj district, endow with the high quality eye care to the 32 million rural folk’s dense seventeen upazillas of Dhaka Division is about 110 km away from the capital. This 20 bedded hospital is build up in 14 May 2006 at the rural environment with the financial and strategic supports from CBM, German. KEH is engage to promote the community ophthalmology to implements the Vison2020 goal is 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. Is engaged in conducting frequent out reach eye camps, free vision screening and awareness rising on eye programs for school children, unprivileged folks of all age group and doing large no of cataract surgeries, for reducing avoidable blindness and early childhood blindness from the region, developed an excellent team of skilled Ophthalmologist and surgeons, to assist in its growth plans.
Mashuda Khatun Shefali is the visionary of the Kishoreganj Eye Hospital (KEH), the founder Executive Director of Nari Uddug Kendra (NUK), (Centre for Women’s Initiatives) established in 1991.
Inspiration behind this hospital was that at her age of 20, while she was the student of the Jahangir Nagar University, her mother Sufia Khatun had a severe head injury. As a result, her mother was semi paralysed, deformed in the right side of her face as well as her eye sight got very poor. At that time there was no Ophthalmologist or any eye hospital nearby for her mother’s proper treatment. Lastly she all alone by herself took her mother to Dhaka for proper treatment. She contacted Islamia Eye Hospital, but there was no place to stay in Dhaka. As a student, she had gone through a hardship for her mother’s condition, travelling from village to Dhaka, which was expensive and difficult to find suitable accommodation facilities to keep her mother in Dhaka for treatment for a long period.
That made her determined that there should be facilities and services available for village people to have access into general health and eye health care. Since then she guided herself with this dream. After 15 years, she established Nari Uddug Kendra (NUK), a gender equality and human rights organization and prompted to initiate the Agaroshindur Community Hospital (established as general health care and maternal health care service provider now a integrated eye health care service provider as Agaroshindur Sufia-Aftab Eye Hospital) and then after 4 years Kishoreganj Eye Hospital (KEH) opened its door for eye health care services at Kishoreganj for providing quality and affordable eye care services for 3.5 million population of Kishoreganj district in rural Bangladesh.
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