Extending eye care o children urged
Lawmaker Fazle Hossain Badsha addresses a meeting organised by Dhaka Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Project at The Daily Star Centre in the capital yesterday. To his left are M Nurun Nabi, Nishat Majumder, Dr Alamgir Hossain and Rifat S Khan.Photo: STAR
Speakers at a meeting yesterday called upon the leaders of Dhaka Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Project (DUCECP) to further extend eye care to visually impaired children. The DUCECP organised the meeting with its collaborative partners at The Daily Star Centre in the capital. The project, launched in 2005, has so far conducted more than 40,000 surgeries of poor eye patients. With the support from Sightsavers and Standard Chartered Bank, Bangladesh, DUCECP has been operating with four implementing hospitals Islamia Eye Hospital, Bangladesh National Society for the Blind, Ad-din Hospital and Salauddin Specialised Hospital Ltd. At the meeting, lawmaker Fazle Hossain Badsha stressed integrated efforts to ensure services to poor people especially the rural ones. The organisations, working for the poor, are decreasing, he said, adding, "We have to create employment opportunities in rural areas to prevent the influx of people towards Dhaka." Wishing all success of the project, Nishat Majumder, the first Bangladeshi woman to conquer Mount Everest, said a person could reach their desired goal if he or she remained focussed on the goals and worked hard towards them. M Nurun Nabi, project coordinator of DUCECP, and Rifat S Khan, programme manager of Sightsavers also spoke.
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