Orbis International has been providing eye care services to the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals at refugee camps, and their host community, in Cox’s Bazar. “The Orbis’ eye screening camp has given the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals access to eye health care services as well as an opportunity to receive quality treatment,” he said. “Our local partner, Cox’s Bazar Baitush Sharaf Hospital, has been distributing medicine, spectacles, and performing surgery free of cost among the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals and the host community,” Haddad said, adding that the Qatar Creating Vision Expanding Eye Care in South East Bangladesh was also delivering eye care services to the host community in Cox’s Bazar. The QCV Expanding Eye Care Project in South East Bangladesh, funded by the Qatar Fund for Development, has screened around 12,000 children and adults, provided medicine and spectacles, performed cataract surgeries, and orientation for local frontline health workers on primary eye care is going on. Orbis started its journey in Bangladesh in 1985 with the Flying Eye Hospital Program which aimed at reducing avoidable blindness.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 08, 2018 16:07 UTC