Ophthalmology

Department of Ophthalmology is an important clinical department of Shri Guru Ram Institute of Medical and Health Sciences that deals with diagnosis, prevention and treatment of various disorders and conditions of the eye. It is located in south block of Shri Mahant Indiresh Hospital. Our experienced ophthalmology team comprises Corneal specialist, Glaucoma specialist, Retina specialist, Squint and Neuro-ophthalmology specialist and Oculoplasty specialist, ophthalmology graduates along with other well trained paramedical staff to carry out various ophthalmology procedures. It receives referrals from all associated medical specialties in the hospital and various patients requiring a multidisciplinary approach are managed with adequate participation by ophthalmologists from time to time. Since it’s inception, it has evolved from delivering basic routine ophthalmology procedures to highly specialized procedures to the masses.

Infrastructure

• Slit lamp examination rooms
• Refraction rooms
• Library
• Demonstration rooms for Undergraduates
• Seminar room for Postgraduate teaching
• Minor OT
• 40-bedded ward
• Eye donation centre
• Wet-lab
• Modular OT with avant-garde technology:
• AlconCenturion Vision system
• Alcon Laureate World Phaco system 
• Zeiss Lumera operating microscopes with a closed-circuit T.V system

Routine Clinical Services Provided by Department:

• Small incision cataract surgery
• Microincision phacoemulsification cataract surgery
• Pediatric cataract surgery
• YAG capsulotomy
• Laser iridotomy
• Optical iridotomy
• Examination under anesthesia
• Pterygium surgery
• Corneal scraping
• Corneal foreign body removal
• Chalazion excision
• Trichiatic lash removal  
• Visual evoked potential

UNIQUE CLINICAL SERVICES PROVIDED BY DEPARTMENT 

 

Cornea

• Therapeutic and optical penetrating keratoplasty
• Ocular surface reconstruction procedures (Amniotic membrane transplantation, simple limbal epithelial transplantation), 
• Fibrin glue for corneal perforation, 

 

Squint

• Squint evaluation
• Amblyopia management

 

Retina

• Retinal detachment surgery (vitreo-retinal surgeries, scleral buckling, pneumatic retinopexy)
• Macular hole surgery
• Retinal hole surgery
• Anti-VEGF intravitreal injection
• Retinopathy of prematurity screening and laser
• Laser for maculopathy and diabetic retinopathy of prematurity
• Fundus fluorescence angiography
• Indocyanine angiography
• Intravitreal injection for endophthalmitis

 

Glaucoma 

• Trabeculectomy with and without anti fibroblastic agents
• Argon laser trabeculoplasty

 

Oculoplasty

• Enucleation
• Evisceration
• Entropion surgeries
• Ectropion surgeries
• Ptosis surgeries
• Dacryocystorhinostomy
• Dacryocystectomy

 

Eye banking

• Eye donation center
• Round the clock services for eye retrieval
• Annual awareness programs
• Eye donation helpline +91 6395060216

 

Investigations 

• Optical coherence tomography
• Humphrey Visual field examination
• Fundus photography
• Ultrasonography and Biometry 
• Retinal and anterior segment lasers
• Non-contact tonometry
• Specular microscopy
• Pachymetry 
• Synoptophore examination

 

Routine academic activity 

• Lectures for second and third year MBBS students
• Clinic postings for second and third year MBBS students
• Seminars and case presentation for postgraduate students

 

Community outreach programmes

 

 

Weekly clinics

• Mothrowala
• Khurbura

Monthly clinics

• Saiyya
• Kalsi
• Sahaspur

Surgeries under camp:

• Cataract
• Glaucoma
• Corneal transplant surgeries