StanChart to invest $20m for eye care
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
FE Report
Standard Chartered Bank Tuesday announced that it will invest $20 million to fund the development of sustainable eye care services in less advantaged areas of 20 cities across the world including Dhaka.
The investment from the London-based leading banking company will come under 'Seeing is Believing,' its global initiative to help tackle avoidable blindness.
The announcement came in the launching ceremony of Phase- IV of Seeing is Believing,' held in the city on the day where adviser for ministry of local government, rural development and cooperatives Anwarul lqbal was the chief guest.
Held at the auditorium of Islamia Eye Hospital the launching ceremony was also addressed, among others, by chairman of Islamia Eye Hospital Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani and acting chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director, OCC, of Standard Chartered Bank Ahmed A Shah and country director of Sight Savers International Dr. Wahidul Islam.
Anwarul Iqbal said the government has been working relentlessly to ensure health care facilities for the people. He said the government will extend its cooperation to implement the programme.
Islamia Eye Hospital chairman Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani said Islamia Eye Hospital has successfully implemented the first phase--Dhaka Urban Eye Care Project sponsored by the Sightsavers International and other partners being the Lions Foundation (BLF) and Bangladesh National Society for the Blind (BNSB).
"Dhaka Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Project (DUCEC) is the second phase project with Sightsavers International and Standard Chartered Bank, Bangladesh has come forward to sponsor this project, he said and added that both the Sightsavers International and the Standard Chartered Bank are old partners of this Hospital and I welcome their participation in this project," he said.
Islamia Eye Hospital will implement this project of 5 years duration starting this month and ending in September 2013. Other implementing hospitals are BNSB Hospital, Ad-din Hospital and Salauddin Specialised Hospital, Mr. Behrouze Ispahani said.
According to Standard Chartered Bank, the new phase of the programme will give poor, marginalised populations access to complete services from cataract surgery, to preventative treatment and specialised medical interventions.
The Dhaka chapter aims to serve over 270,000 visually impaired people in Dhaka with Sightsavers International as their partner. The whole operation will be executed with the support of four partner hospitals: Islamia Eye Hospital, Bangladesh National Society for the Blind (BNSB), Ad-Din Hospital and Salauddin Specialised Hospital Ltd.
Standard Chartered Bank Tuesday announced that it will invest $20 million to fund the development of sustainable eye care services in less advantaged areas of 20 cities across the world including Dhaka.
The investment from the London-based leading banking company will come under 'Seeing is Believing,' its global initiative to help tackle avoidable blindness.
The announcement came in the launching ceremony of Phase- IV of Seeing is Believing,' held in the city on the day where adviser for ministry of local government, rural development and cooperatives Anwarul lqbal was the chief guest.
Held at the auditorium of Islamia Eye Hospital the launching ceremony was also addressed, among others, by chairman of Islamia Eye Hospital Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani and acting chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director, OCC, of Standard Chartered Bank Ahmed A Shah and country director of Sight Savers International Dr. Wahidul Islam.
Anwarul Iqbal said the government has been working relentlessly to ensure health care facilities for the people. He said the government will extend its cooperation to implement the programme.
Islamia Eye Hospital chairman Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani said Islamia Eye Hospital has successfully implemented the first phase--Dhaka Urban Eye Care Project sponsored by the Sightsavers International and other partners being the Lions Foundation (BLF) and Bangladesh National Society for the Blind (BNSB).
"Dhaka Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Project (DUCEC) is the second phase project with Sightsavers International and Standard Chartered Bank, Bangladesh has come forward to sponsor this project, he said and added that both the Sightsavers International and the Standard Chartered Bank are old partners of this Hospital and I welcome their participation in this project," he said.
Islamia Eye Hospital will implement this project of 5 years duration starting this month and ending in September 2013. Other implementing hospitals are BNSB Hospital, Ad-din Hospital and Salauddin Specialised Hospital, Mr. Behrouze Ispahani said.
According to Standard Chartered Bank, the new phase of the programme will give poor, marginalised populations access to complete services from cataract surgery, to preventative treatment and specialised medical interventions.
The Dhaka chapter aims to serve over 270,000 visually impaired people in Dhaka with Sightsavers International as their partner. The whole operation will be executed with the support of four partner hospitals: Islamia Eye Hospital, Bangladesh National Society for the Blind (BNSB), Ad-Din Hospital and Salauddin Specialised Hospital Ltd.