As many as 43 destitute people received cataract surgery for free at Bashundhara Eye Hospital and Research Institute, an ophthalmic venture of the country’s largest business conglomerate Bashundhara Group, in the capital’s Bashundhara Residential Area on Thursday.
The hospital in coordination with Vision Care Foundation and Chapainawabganj-based Nobojagoron Protibondi Odikar Songstha organised the operations.
Earlier on November 22, they were selected for surgery at a free eye camp set up by Nobojagoron Protibondi Odikar Songstha at Ramchandrapur Hat in Chapainawabganj.
On that day, the hospital provided free treatment to around 1,000 impoverished patients in the district.
Bashundhara Eye Hospital and Vision Care Foundation provided doctors, ophthalmic technologists and other logistic support.
Md Ahsan Habib, Manager (HR and Administration) of Bashundhara Eye Hospital, said the hospital has long been providing treatment and performing surgery on poor and helpless people free of charge.
Over 1,700 poverty-stricken patients including elderly men and women have so far received operations from the hospital.
