Facilities

• General eye OPD services
• Inpatient services
• Ophthalmology operation theatre(O.T) services
• Community and school screening services
• Glaucoma (Clinic) services
• Retina (Clinic) services
• Cornea/keratoplasty (clinic) services


Major Equipment

• Automated Visual Field (Humphrey Perimeter)
• Nd:YAG Laser
• Phacoemulsification machine
• Diode laser
• Slit lamp
• Operating Microscope
• Pachymeter
• A Scan

Role of the department in MCOMS/MTH Courses

This department has helped MCOMS/ MTH in running services and conducting academic programmes like:

• Staff Nurse
• MBBS
• MD in ophthalmology

Research Activities

With the installment of new equipment, initiation of PG programmes and consolidation of community activities, this department has already started the following research activities

A. Completed research

• Lens opacity as a biomarker of exposure on the study of indoor air pollution.
Principal Investigator: Amod Pokhrel, UCLA, Berkeley
Co- investigator: Prof. S.P. Shrestha

Directors:
• Prof. Kirk Smith, Prof and Head, Dep. Of Environmental Health Science, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley
• Prof. Lam Bailey, Prof and Head, School of Optometry, University of California at Berkeley

B. On going research activities:

• Study on identification of factors affecting the relationship between CCT and Intra Ocular pressure
• A comparative study of tear secretion and tear film instability in patients with pterygium and normal healthy subjects
• Study on ocular changes in patients with diabetes mellitus
• Study on corneal thickness in normal population of western Nepal
• Study on corneal curvature in normal population in Pokhara
• A comparative study of induced astigmatism in SICS by 6-6.5 mm straight and frown incisions

C. Publications:

• Spectrum of Ocular Diseases at a military Hospital in Ladakh, North India. KN Jha (Journal of clinical and Diagnostic Research. 2008 June,03:843-846) 
• Conjunctival limbal Auto graft in Primary and recurrent Pterygium.KN Jha (Medical Journal Armed forced India. Vol.64 No. 2, 2008: 337-339) 
• Baseline ophthalmic data of schoolchildren aged 15 years or younger at Leh, Jammu & Kashmir, India. KN Jha ( Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic research.2008, December, Vol. 64 No. 2: 1186-1190) 
• External versus Endoscopic Dacryocystorhinostomy: A retrospective study. KN Jha (Going to be published in Medical Journal Armed forces India, Jan 2009) 
• Tear break up time in High Altitude Areas. KN Jha (going to be published in Medical Journal Armed forces India, Jan 2009)
• Progressive Reduction of phaco parameters during nuclear fragment removal a safe and efficient way of managing cataracts. Pradhan R, Post Graduate Medical Journal of Nepal Academy of Medical Sciences (PMJN), Volume 7, No. 1, Jan - Jun. 2007 
• Low vision care facts in a tertiary level eye hospital in western region of Nepal. Pradhan R, PMJN, Volume 7, No. 2, Dec. 2007
• Atypical presentation and diagnostics pitfalls: A case of rapidly progressive bilateral Proptosis in a child aged 18 months. Indian Journal of Ophthalmology Volume -56 No. 1 January 2008. Dr. Subrahmanya K. Bhat, M.S, Dr. Sachet P. Shrestha, M.S, Dr. Rimli Barthakur, M.S, Dr. Maya Natarajan, DNB
• “Altitude Sickness: A Review” Sushil Dawka , Rimli Barthakur, Journal of Gandaki Medical College, Nepal, Vol-1, Issue-2 15th Oct.2008

Achievements 

• Dr. K.R. Kaini attended two Workshops in Kathmandu
• National planning workshop on refractive error organised by Til Ganga Eye Centre, Nepal with support from International centre for Eye Health, London and Apex body for Eye Health, Ministry of Health and Population (1- 3 December, 2008)
• National workshop on “Vision 20/20”, organized by Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal with support from WHO (5-6 December 2008)
• Mr Krishna Acharya, ophthalmic assistant, who is looking after the community eye programme of this department, participated as a trainer in five days Primary Eye Care training programme for Health post personnel of eastern part of Kaski district with the financial support of Asha Health care.

Future plans and proposed expansion etc

This department is determined to strengthen its services/ activities by acquiring Synaptophore, Fundus camera, A/B scan, Contact lens & Low vision aids in a year or two. To consolidate the PG programme, it will organise one or two workshops in a year, initiate academic exchange programmes with other PG centres/ Tertiary eye care centres in Nepal in the near future.