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We will never stop for Bangladesh's eye health promotion
File : Date : 2018-10-02 11:17:17
We will never stop for Bangladesh's eye health promotion
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Heart to Heart Foundation have been implementing eye care services for people in Gazipur District, Bangladesh in cooperation with KOICA(Korea International Cooperation Agency) for the last 10 years.

We have been supporting the residents who can not access eye care services with lack of transportations and financial conditions for screening and treating their eyes. Furthermore, We have been improving eye health awareness to community residents for preventing and coping with eye disease by themselves. We would like to strive to prevent avoidable blindness.



  

Eye camp for the community


 
Especially, Heart to Heart Foundation have been working about developing  ophthalmic human resources for sustainable eye care services in Bangladesh. In 2010, We established MLOP(Mid-level Ophthalmic Personnel) Training Center to cultivate ophthalmic human resources in the community of the insufficient. We have also developed MLOP curriculum and manuals to provide quality education in corporation with Bangladesh Directorate General Of Health Services(DGHS). As a results, We have turned out 101 graduates and of which 64 graduates got a job in eye health-related institution from 2012 to 2017. We have contributed eye health promotion in Bangladesh.
 
 
 
 

Training for MLOP 

 
 
In 2018, MLOP training project is closed. but Heart to Heart Foundation decided to integrate and transfer the project to the partner Karamtola Christian Hospital to promote continuous eye care services in Bangladesh.

Currently, the 8th of MLOP students(2018) are growing up to be a personnel as providing eye care services of community residents by completing MLOP training and the nursing school course of Karamtola Christian Hospital. In addition, They are having vocational ability by learning computer and english skills.

Heart to Heart Foundation will contribute to the eye care services in Bangladesh's communities by training ophthalmic personnel through modeling of our projects and handing down the know-how to a local hospitals after even our projects are closed.

  

 This project is part of [Project to promote eye health & build capacity for eye health personnel in Gazipur, Bangladesh], have been carried out by Heart to Heart Foundation in partnership with KOICA.  


 
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