Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has expressed Bangladesh’s eagerness to work and collaborate with global nonprofit Orbis International to amplify behold care products and services within the country.
Talking at a gathering with Orbis International President and CEO Derek Hodkey, he said Bangladesh must amplify behold care products and services and is prepared to work with Orbis International to this dwell.
Derek, who’s visiting Bangladesh as phase of the Orbis Flying Glimpse Health center’s coaching programme now taking residing in Chattogram, met Prof Yunus at his residing of enterprise within the capital on Wednesday (November 20), a press begin said.
Orbis Bangladesh Country Director Dr Munir Ahmed accompanied Derek all the arrangement thru his meeting with the Chief Adviser.
The Orbis President offered the Chief Adviser with a model model of the Flying Glimpse Health center, which he extremely liked.
Derek spoke with the Chief Adviser about the work of Orbis International, which started its global perceive-saving programmes in 1982.
In Bangladesh, Orbis has been working with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for 39 years.
Within the course of this era, Derek said, Orbis has to this level performed over 7.8 million behold screenings at community outreach occasions, offered bigger than 4.5 million scientific and optical therapies to adults and children, performed bigger than 258,000 behold surgical procedures, and professional bigger than 40,000 behold care consultants in Bangladesh.
Prof Yunus acknowledged Orbis’s contribution to the behold health sector in Bangladesh and expressed his appreciation for the Flying Glimpse Health center, which is now conducting its 11th coaching programme within the South Asian country.
“I enjoy Orbis. I enjoy the Flying Glimpse Health center,” he said, pointing out that Orbis is with out doubt one of many principle gamers in Bangladesh’s behold health sector.
Derek said Orbis is handing over perceive-saving programmes in over 200 worldwide locations and territories worldwide to relieve folk, households, and communities to thrive.
Declaring that round one billion folk all the arrangement thru the globe live with fully avoidable blindness and vision loss, Derek said that, for over four decades, Orbis has been tackling this difficulty by building powerful and sustainable behold care programs.
Per the Orbis president, the non-profit runs dedicated in-country programs in Africa, Asia, and Latin The united states, and develops and implements modern coaching and technology.
He said all the arrangement thru the last four decades, Orbis has helped toughen the abilities and data of native partners in Bangladesh, with a focal level on paediatric behold care, microsurgery, retinal surgical treatment, corneal ailments, retinopathy of prematurity, and diabetic retinopathy.
Derek told the Chief Adviser that Orbis has established 42 vision centres, which connect communities all the arrangement thru the country, especially in rural areas, with behold care, and has supported the institution or enchancment of 17 secondary hospitals, four tertiary hospitals, two wet labs, one quality helpful resource centre, and one digital coaching hub.
Furthermore, Orbis has geared up 400 community clinics with vision screening tools and developed Bangladesh’s first nationwide ideas for the screening and administration of retinopathy of prematurity, a main cause at the back of childhood blindness, he talked about.
