GP partnership with Sightsavers
FE Report | Thursday, 28 August 2008
Grameenphone Ltd. has renewed its partnership with Sightsavers International to provide free eye-care support to the economically disadvantaged people of country's rural areas.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed in this regard between Grameenphone and Sightsavers International in a city hotel Wednesday.
The agreement was signed at the conclusion of the earlier partnership agreement between the two organizations, prevailing for last one year.
Under the contract, GP and Sightsavers International will continue to jointly organize free eye-care camps in different parts of the country where eye-care services are not readily available.
Ahmed Raihan Shamsi, director of Financial Management & Company Secretary of Grameenphone and Rifat Shapar Khan, Programme Manager of Sightsavers International signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organisations.
Iqbal Mahmood, secretary of Ministry of Post & Telecommunication attended as the chief guest at the signing ceremony.
Grameenphone, jointly with Sight Savers International, an organisation committed to combating blindness in developing countries, has been working in Bangladesh since 1973, organised the eye camps and provided associated actual cost for organising the camps and also provide surgery costs, which included transportation and follow-up visit cost of patients.
All patients registering for these camps are given routine examinations. Prescriptions for refractive error are given and Intra Ocular Lens (IOL) or cataract surgeries are administered to those who require it.
Around 13,000 patients have received free eye-care support and over 1,500 cataract surgeries have been performed through nine eye-care camps conducted in different parts of the country since last year.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed in this regard between Grameenphone and Sightsavers International in a city hotel Wednesday.
The agreement was signed at the conclusion of the earlier partnership agreement between the two organizations, prevailing for last one year.
Under the contract, GP and Sightsavers International will continue to jointly organize free eye-care camps in different parts of the country where eye-care services are not readily available.
Ahmed Raihan Shamsi, director of Financial Management & Company Secretary of Grameenphone and Rifat Shapar Khan, Programme Manager of Sightsavers International signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organisations.
Iqbal Mahmood, secretary of Ministry of Post & Telecommunication attended as the chief guest at the signing ceremony.
Grameenphone, jointly with Sight Savers International, an organisation committed to combating blindness in developing countries, has been working in Bangladesh since 1973, organised the eye camps and provided associated actual cost for organising the camps and also provide surgery costs, which included transportation and follow-up visit cost of patients.
All patients registering for these camps are given routine examinations. Prescriptions for refractive error are given and Intra Ocular Lens (IOL) or cataract surgeries are administered to those who require it.
Around 13,000 patients have received free eye-care support and over 1,500 cataract surgeries have been performed through nine eye-care camps conducted in different parts of the country since last year.