Awarding gold medal to DR. M A Muhit for his great contribution on the field of research of childhood eye diseases on behalf of the Ophthalmological Society of Bangladesh (OSB).
Ophthalmological Society of Bangladesh (OSB) is happy to announce that the society is going to award a gold medal to Dr. M A Muhit for his great contribution on the field of research of childhood eye diseases in its 36th annual national conference on Wednesday, the 18th March, 2009.The conference held in BCPS Complex auditorium, Mohakhali, Dhaka. Dr. M A Muhit, in his career, is in teaching in the University of London, U.K for long 10 years. He is involved in research regarding the childhood blindness of the children of different countries of the world. Prof. Tasmima Matin, mother of Dr. M A Muhit, gives her consent to receive the award on behalf of her son as Dr. Muhit is staying abroad.
Dr. M A Muhit has invented Key Informant Method (KIM) through his long time research and his observation through research is that there are 40,000 (forty thousand ) children who are the victim of childhood blindness in Bangladesh. Out of them, 12,000 (twelve thousand) children are blind due to avoidable cataract problem. In the light of VISION 2020 global campaign, he has established Child Sight Foundation (CSF) to restore the eye sight of cataract blind children of our country. Now this organization has been detecting blind children and referring cataract blind for operation at free of cost. Besides this, the organization has been working for inclusive education and rehabilitation of the blind children.
