About Us:

Kishoreganj Eye Hospital (KEH) launched as “Nari Uddug Kendra’s Eye Care Services, Kishoreganj” in June 2003, operating out of NUK’s Agarasindhur Community Hospital. The project offered an expanded array secondary eye services to supplement the primary eye care services available at ACH since its inception in 2000.Demand for eye care services soon overwhelmed project staff and with an initial funding from the Christoffell Blinden Mission (CBM) Germany, Kishoreganj Eye Hospital opened its doors in 14 May of 2006 at Latibabad, Kishoreganj as an exclusive specialized full pledged Eye Hospitals to meet this demand in a modern new building with highly qualified staff. KEH’s primary focus is cataract treatment, but as the sole eye hospital in a district with 3 million residents, its mandate is much greater. It offers comprehensive eye care from surgery to preventive education and holds regular community eye screening camps to maximize ophthalmic treatment and raise awareness throughout the region. The 26-bed hospital provides 24-hours service, sliding-scale transportation for cataract patients and full accommodation.  

Founder of the Hospital:

Mashuda Khatun Shefali is the visionary of the Kishoreganj Eye Hospital, the founder Executive Director of Nari Uddug Kendra (NUK), (Center for Women Initiatives) Established in 1991.

Inspiration behind this hospital was, at her age of 20,while she was the student of the Jahangir Nagar University, her mother Sufia Khatun had a severe head injury. As a result, her mother was semi paralyzed, deformed the right sides of her face as well as her eye sights get very poor. At that time there was no Ophthalmologist or any eye hospital nearby for her mother’s proper treatment. Lastly she all alone by herself takes her mother to Dhaka and look for proper treatment. She contacted the Islamia Eye Hospital, but there was no place to stay in Dhaka. As a student, she has gone through a hardship for her mother’s traveling from her villages to Dhaka, which was expensive and difficult to find suitable accommodation facilities to keep her mother in Dhaka for treatment for a long.

That makes her to determine that there should be the facilities and services are available for village people to have access into health care and eye care. Since then she had a dream that she was guided with. After 15 years, she established Nari Uddug Kendra (NUK), a gender equality and human rights organization prompted to initiate the Agarshindur Community Hospital and then after 4 years Kishoreganj Eye Hospital opened its door for eye care services at Kishoreganj for providing the quality and affordable eye care services for 3 million population of Kishoreganj districts in rural Bangladesh!

On behalf of the eye hospital team we congratulate her from our core of heart for illuminating the life by restoring the sight.