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.