Diabetic Retinopathy (DR)
Screening
Treatment
Surgery
Diabetic retinopathy is damage to the small blood vessels in the retina caused by complications of diabetes. With the rise in Diabetes, this is becoming a major cause of vision loss across the world. DR screening camps specialise exclusively in the diagnosis and treatment of this irreversible disease.
Diabetic retinopathy is damage to the small blood vessels in the retina (the thin light-sensitive membrane that covers the inside of the eye) caused by complications of diabetes (high blood glucose levels in people with poorly controlled diabetes). With the rise in Diabetes, this is becoming a major cause of vision loss across the world. DR screening camps specialise exclusively in the diagnosis and treatment of this irreversible disease.
Types of DR
Diabetic retinopathy is a complication of diabetes, caused by high blood sugar levels damaging the back of the eye (retina). It can cause blindness if left undiagnosed and untreated. However, it usually takes several years for diabetic retinopathy to reach a stage where it could threaten your sight.
- Stage 1: Mild nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy.
- Stage 2: Moderate nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy.
- Stage 3: Severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy.
- Stage 4: Proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
Fees and Charges
our Beneficiaries says
Cataract lost my sight and it is difficult to move smoothly without assistance of others, but after operation I am comfortable in continuing my job and I can see everything clearly. So, it removes the burden of life by cataract surgery with support from ANDHERI HILFE
Yeasin Ali
They took me back to the eye camp center two days later after the operation. They arranged my stay there and gave me medicine & sunglasses. And they did everything without charging me anything. What I paid for everything is just attend in the free eye camp for the first time to get my sight restoration, and I went to the hospital
Arfan Ahammed
I went through some tests there and after the tests, the doctor informed me that I had cataract and an operation would have to be done to remove it in my left eye. On the camp I brought my wife with me to the eye camp for further consultation and finally, we decided to go for surgery
Setaj Chakma
Abul Kashem, a 17 years old young boy from Anderchar (River costal area), Noakhali Sadar under Noakhali district of Bangladesh, could not do well in his work in the brickfield due to his prolonged eye disease. Affected by poor economic condition and shortage of eye care facility, finally avail himself of eye care services and had his vision problem solved at Mazharul Haque BNSB Eye Hospital, Chandpur by Free Screening Eye Camp of ANDHERI HILFE. The treatment has facilitated his return to the work with renewed eyesight.
Abul Kashem
“She was a dumb women and from the poor economic family could not properly feed our children regularly, at the meantime, Cataract is take away her eye vision, Finally she is going to be blind” This was the urges of this special need women’s husband.
Moni Begum
Tania Akhter is a 7-year-old girl who lives with her parents, in a rural village of Shahrasti Upazilla, under Chandpur district of Bangladesh. She reads in Class 02 in Debipur Government Primary School, Shahrasti, Chandpur. Like the majority of their community, the family farms their small plot of land to provide for themselves
Tania Akhter
Tanjila Akhter, a less fortunate village girl living in Bangladesh’s east-central district of Chandpur, endured years of vision problem but could not have the access to eye care services due to her financial hardship and the unavailability of specialized eye health facilities in her area. She has had her sight restored with intervention of the Retina Unit at Mazharul Haque BNSB Eye Hospital, Chandpur supported by ANDHERI HILFE eV, Bonn, Germany.
