Staff Members

The Department of Ophthalmology at SMF is a comprehensive service geared to meet the community's eye care needs by providing high quality eye care at an affordable cost. The eye department treats patients with general eye problems or those desiring a specific evaluation for cataracts, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy or macular degeneration. The day care in-patient wards provide support for the short stay eye surgeries performed for cataract, glaucoma, lacrimal sac etc.

Facilities available: The following services are available at the department.

Refraction for glasses with dilated fundus exam

• Evaluation of visual acuity
• Slit lamp biomicroscopy
• Ophthalmoloscopy - direct and indirect
• Tonometry - gonioscopy
• Visual field testing
• Evaluation of extraocular muscle function

Vision check up for computer professionals

Contact lenses and low vision services

Cataract removal and lens implantation, including "no-stitch" cataract surgery with foldable lens or multifocal foldable lens

Glaucoma diagnosis and management

Neurophthalmology

Lacrimal sac surgery including endoscopic DCR

Cornea transplant

External diseases of the eye

Photographs of facilities

Automated refraction	Synoptophore	Slit lamp

Eye surgery in progress	Day care ward
Ophthalmic laser	Visual field analyser