Cornea Service

Cornea Service

Cornea department is one of the well-established subspecialty department at Bharatpur Eye Hospital. Since corneal diseases is one of the major cause of blindness in developing countries, cornea department at BEH has been providing services not only to the people in Chitwan, but also the its neighboring districts. The department is equipped with major investigative instruments for diagnosis and treatment of ocular diseases. There is also dry eye clinic within this department, providing dry eye therapy for the patients. In the year 2023-24, a total of 443 patient underwent investigations for dry eye and therapy for dry eye was done for 483 patients. The cornea collection center and the facility of cornea transplant has been started since 2017.

In the year 2023-24, a total of 1629 patients were registered under cornea department. The major corneal problems recorded were pterygium, keratitis, corneal ulcers and corneal opacities. 45 pateints were diagnoised as keratoconous. A total of 658 cornea related surgeries were performed. Pterygium with graft was done in 614 patients and corneal transplantation in 10 patients.

Pre-Operative (Before Cornea Transplant)
Post-Operative (After Cornea Transplant)

Our Specialists

Dr. Puspa Giri Shrestha

Cornea Specialist