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Activities:
1.
The department serves as the major reception
for all sorts of eye problems in the region
and provides state of the art management
of ophthalmic disorders.
2. The department runs a busy outdoor service,
the annual OPD attendance exceeding 35,000.
Outpatient department also provides services
for refraction and minor surgical procedures.
3. Eye
relief camps are a major activity in the
winter months. In each camp outpatients
services and drugs are provided and intraocular
and extraocular surgical procedures are
performed.
4. The department was selected
as a training center for Extra Capsular
Cataract Extraction and Posterior Capsular
Intra Ocular Lens surgery under the Government
of India- World Bank Project in 1994. Eye
Bank has been recognised by Eye Bank Association
of India.
5. The following text books were edited
by Dr Sandeep Saxena and published by Jaypee
Medical Publishers, New Delhi. 1. Clinical
Practice in Ophthalmology (2003) 2. Ophthalmic
Surgery- The Cutting edge (2005) and 3.
Optical Coherence Tomography in Retinal
Diseases (2005).
6. An instrument for measuring retinal lesions
"Saxena Grid" has been designed
by Dr Sandeep Saxena and is being manufactured
by Ocular Instruments, USA.
Facilities:
1. The department is equipped
with i) Automated Visual Field Analyser,
ii)Yag Laser, iii) Fundus Camera, iv) Slit
lamp with digital anterior segment photography
v) Phacoemulsification system, vi) argon
laser, vii) A & B-Scan Ultrasound viii)
Biometer & Pachymeter ix) Vitrectomy
system, x) Non contact Tonometer apart from
the routinely used instruments in present
day opthalmic care.
2. The department has separate seminar hall,
modern operation theatre, dark room and
internet facilities.
3. Facilities for modern cataract surgery
(Phaco, small incision cataract surgery
with foldable intra ocvular lens) are available.
Cataract surgery is routinely performed
free under the National Program for Control
of Blindness.
4. Speciality clinics are held in i) Contact
lens and low vision, ii) Glaucoma &
Visual Fields, iii) Squint and orthoptics
iv) Diabetic Retinopathy Screening, v) Retina
- Flourescein Angiography & Laser, vi)
Ophthalmoplasty v) Uveitis vi) Cornea clinic
and keratoplasty.
Output:
The bed strength is 100 in 3 wards. The annual indoor admissions number about 2200 and the number of major operations performed is close to 2500 in a year.
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