Orbis Flying Eye Hospital coming to Bangladesh again next year

Orbis Flying Eye Hospital will come to Bangladesh in November next year for the 11th time.

The information was revealed at a consultative meeting on the “11th Flying Eye Hospital Training Program 2024” held at Pan Pacific Sonargaon hotel in the capital on Tuesday.

Flying Eye Hospital training programme allows the clinical team and world-leading volunteer faculty (medical experts) to travel the world sharing knowledge and developing the skills of eye care professionals in the communities that need it most. The plane made its 10th visit to Bangladesh in 2017.

Prof AHM Enayet Hussain, President of Ophthalmological Society of Bangladesh (OSB), Country Chair of IAPB, SEA Bangladesh Chapter and the Vice Chancellor of Sylhet Medical University chaired the meeting attended by heavyweights in the ophthalmology field.

Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) President Prof Ava Hossain, former DGHS Director General Prof Deen Mohd Noorul Huq, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Vice Chancellor Prof Md Sharfuddin Ahmed were among the attendees.

Dr Munir, in his introductory speech, said Flying Eye Hospital’s coming to Bangladesh on 10 occasions in its 40 years of operation manifests the importance of human resource development in ophthalmic field.

He appreciated OSB, National Eye Care, National Institute of Ophthalmology& Hospital (NIO&H), Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs, Civil Aviation Authority and other government and non-government stakeholders for their support during the previous visits of the Flying Eye Hospital training programme and sought similar support this time too.

Since its first visit in 1985, the FEH imparted training to ophthalmologists, ophthalmic nurses and biomedical technicians in Bangladesh who have helped shape the eye care sector in the country, reports UNB.