it is a power point presentation on school sight testing program in a rural rea of bangladesh

2. Ensuring primary eye care at School
level: Activities of Sheikh
Fazilatunnesa Mujib eye hospital and
training institute

3. Dr. Md. Mahboobur Rahman Bhuyan
MBBS, BCS, MS (Ophtalmology)
Indoor Medical officer
Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib eye hospital and training
institute

4. Primary Eye Care
Appropriate Accessible
Affordable

5. Components
Promotive Preventive
Curative Rehabilitative

6. Our goal
 Identify children with significant refractive errors
 supply spectacles
 Primary eye care for children
 Increase awareness of common eye problems
 Eye care for teachers (e.g. Presbyopia)
 Health promoting school environment
 Spread awareness of safety measures to prevent ocular injuries

7. Components of the school
sight testing program

8. Formation of team
 Ophthalmologist (the team
leader)
 Paramedics
 Nurses
 Office staff

9. Communication
 Communication with the School
authorities for fixing testing
schedules

10. Communication
 raising awareness among parents
and guardians about child eye
care

11. Orientation
 sessions for school
teachers to familiarise
them with common eye
problems in school-age
children
 hands-on training in
vision screening for class
teachers

12. vision screening
 vision screening for students using
an E-chart / Snell’s chart

13. objective refraction
 objective refraction done with
autorefractometer and
retinoscope

14. subjective refraction
 subjective refraction conducted
after objective refraction
 prescribing spectacles

15.  Eye examination with a handheld slit lamp
 Treatment given for detected eye problems
 Prescribed medicine provided free of cost
 Referral to a higher level of eye care centre, if needed
(e.g., for cycloplegic refraction)

16. Collaboration with Orbis
Established in 2020
agreement signed on February 6,
2020
Under national childhood
blindness project (NCBP)

17. DCF project
Signed in 2021
Three years agreement
Funded by Donner Canadian Foundation (DCF).
Under the project of ‘strengthening comprehensive eye
care for children and newborns in rural Bangladesh

18. Project focus
 Reaching children and families in rural areas through school
sight testing programs (sstps),
 Community-based eye screening camps,
 Eye health education programs/events and
 Eye health messaging targeting parents with newborns and
young children.

19. Activities
 School sight testing programme 20
 Screen childs 1965
 Organized continued medical
education (CME) for doctors and
nurses
100 persons
 Organized orientation on pediatric
primary eye care for nurses and
paramedics of vision centers
100 persons

20. Activities
 Two Nurses training on Pediatric Ophthalmology OPD
 Renovation of child friendly pediatric OPD
 Installation of Patient Information System (PIS) and
provided training

21. In 2023 scheduled activities
 School sight testing programme -1
 Screens 150 Children
 Provide medical treatment
 Free medication

22. Take home message
 Raising awareness among teachers, parents, and children
about eye health
 Ensuring that all school children have access to basic
visual acuity screening

23. THANKS