Eye Hospital Tikapur
Introduction of Eye Hospital Tikapur:
Eye Hospital Tikapur was established on 21st April 2005 as an Eye Care Center to provide eye care to the patients of eastern part of Kailali district. To provide surgical eye care service at the center it was upgraded as surgical Eye Center on 10th January 2009 and monthly specialty service as well as surgical eye care service provided by ophthalmologists from Geta Eye Hospital.
It was further upgraded as secondary level eye hospital on 21st December 2021 to provide regular specialty eye care service and surgical eye care. The hospital is run by Nepal Netrajyoti Sangh, Geta Eye Hospital with the support of SEVA Foundation and Fred Hollows Foundation.
Hospital is rendering eye care service to more than 23 thousand patients including one thousand surgeries annually. Hospital providing subsidized or free surgeries to the patients who cannot afford the costs and to the unreached people through community outreach camps free of costs. Hospital also runs school eye health program, training to school teachers, female community health volunteers to create awareness and develop referral network. In the fiscal year 2022/23 hospital had provided eye care service to 23,552 patients including 953 surgeries.
Eye Care services at Eye Hospital Tikapur:
- General Ophthalmology services
- Cataract surgeries (Small Incision Cataract Surgery and Phaco-emulsification)
- Pterizium excision with grafting
- Other minor ocular surgeries
- Orthoptic services
- Optical dispensing
- Pathology services
- Pharmacy