Training on eye care
Recently "Dhaka Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Project" (DUCECP) has started a training programme on Primary Eye Care for about 2000 front line staffs and volunteers of collaborative partners. They will communicate with the target poor and extreme poor people in the urban area of Dhaka city to provide them eye care services through disseminating necessary information, proper referral and other supports. The project is funded by Standard Chartered Bank under its global initiative Seeing is Believing (SiB) and Sightsavers International. Islamia Eye Hospital remains as lead partner in collaboration with three other hospitals — Bangladesh National Society for the Blind (BNSB), Dhaka Eye Hospital at Mirpur, Ad-din Hospital, located at Maghbazar, Salauddin Specialised Hospital Ltd., located at Hatkhola and other development organisations.
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