Where we work | Bangladesh

Three decades of combating preventable blindness in Bangladesh.

Since 1994, our hospitals have served communities from Dhaka to Rajshahi. Permanent care, local doctors, doors that stay open.

1994service since
116Mobile Clinics Held
5Hospitals Across Bangladesh
6.3M+Outpatient Visits
293K+Surgeries Performed

Our presence

Five hospitals. One promise.

Permanent eye hospitals mean care that outlasts any single campaign. These doors have been open for decades.

Al-Noor Eye Hospital

Mohammadpur, Dhaka
3.53MOutpatient visits
155KSurgeries

Opened January 1994. Largest site in the network.

Makkah Eye Hospital

Uttara, Dhaka
1.53MOutpatient visits
64KSurgeries

Opened February 2009.

Makkah Eye Hospital

Kakrail, Dhaka
59KOutpatient visits
3.9KSurgeries

Opened November 2023. Newest site.

Makkah Eye Hospital

Tangail
674KOutpatient visits
25KSurgeries

Opened February 2014.

Makkah Eye Hospital

Rajshahi
493KOutpatient visits
44KSurgeries

Opened January 1994.

Growth you can verify

Every year, Bangladesh sees more.

People reached through our three services, cumulative totals as published in each annual report.

Eye Hospitals
Mobile Clinics
School Program
2023
Eye Hospitals
Mobile Clinics
School Program
2024
Eye Hospitals
Mobile Clinics
School Program
2025

Share of everyone reached, as of the latest annual report.

A life changed

I can see my children’s faces again.

Amina lost her sight to bilateral cataracts over two years. A single morning at our eye camp changed that. By evening, the bandages came off.

“I never thought I would see clearly again. This gift changed my life.”

Amina Hassan, patient

Read their story

Beyond the hospitals

Care that travels to remote villages in Bangladesh.

Hospitals anchor the work. Camps, classrooms, and refugee settlements extend it.

School screenings

Three phases of school eye health in Dhaka since 2014, catching children’s vision problems before they fall behind in class.

243,785students screened
398schools
About school screening

Rohingya refugee camps

Three mobile clinics serving Rohingya refugees in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, in 2018 and 2026.

12,840patients screened
1,329surgeries performed

4,572 spectacles distributed across the three mobile clinics.

Give to Bangladesh

Someone in Bangladesh will see tomorrow because of what you do today.

Choose an amount, or give monthly to keep all five hospitals running year round.

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Your Zakat can return someone’s sight.

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