DEPARTMENT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
VISION
- To provide comprehensive and qualitative eye care facility to our patients. To spread awareness and educate the patients for common eye disease.
- To provide knowledge and training to undergraduate students to enable them to practice primary eye care physician.
CLINICAL
- Ophthalmic department in general hospital campus running opd daily, having 60-70 patients per day and in winter it goes upto 100-120 patients per day.
- We are providing 24/7 ophthalmic emergency services in trauma centre.
- We have two consulting room with all diagnostic equipments including posterior segments.
- One refraction room with one autorefractometer, non contact tonometer, A scan snellen vision drum, charts, trial frame set.
- We are running R.O.P. screening opd with collaboration of department of neonatology of the hospital.We are examining the child with indirect ophthalmoscope
- We are doing community service like school health programme, diabetic retinopathy screening, B.S.F personnels ophthalmic check up and mass screening of cataracts in camps and providing free spectacles to children upto 14 year.
- We are providing free medicines and eyedrops to post operative patients, glaucoma patients and patients with common eye diseases.
SURGICAL
- We are operating 7-8 patients of cataract with IOL surgery free of cost, other than cataracts we are doing other extra ocular surgeries like pterygium excision, cyst excision, entropion ectropion correction surgery, DCR , abscess I&D and other oculoplasty procedures.
- We have all the instruments and equipments for above procedures.
- We have secured a 2nd number for maximum cataract surgery in Gujarat as per State Ophthalmic Sell Gandhinagar.
ACADEMICS
- We have teaching facility for M.B.B.S. students along with lectures and seminars and clinical examination lectures and exam conducting facilities.
- We have research facility in departments of medical retina, glaucoma, cataracts etc. for faculty.
INFRASTRUCTURE
- We are surving in a building having 2 floor for our department. We have 2 consulting rooms, 1 refraction room, 1 procedure room, 1 store room, 1 autoclave room, patient waiting area and nurse area on ground floor.
- We have 1 OT room with 1 septic procedure room and waiting area on 2nd floor. There are 2 wards with 20 indoor beds on 2nd floor.

Dr. Sunil Joshi
MBBS, MS, FICS
MBBS : B.J.MEDICAL COLLEGE, AHMEDABAD
M S: B.J.MEDICAL COLLEGE, AHMEDABAD
FICS
He is trained Urologist and medical legal expert. He had given given many lectures on medico legal aspects. He has taken lectures on HIV and AIDS , Hygiene, Beti Bachavo, Population Explosion ,Kidney Diseases, PC & PNDT Act and on Severe Others Subjects.
STAFF
We have two assistant professors, two senior resident, one junior resident, intern, one optometrist, one eye donation incharge, qualified well trained nursing staff along with servants.
Assistant professor and incharge HOD:
Dr. Hasmukh I. Joshi.
Qualification: MBBS- 1977 D.O.- 1979 M.S. Ophthal- 1980

Present status: Assistant professor, ophthalmology, BMCRI, palanpur.
Academics : President of Gujarat ophthalmology society, 2003- 2004.
President of North Gujarat ophthalmology society, 2003-2007
President of Indian Red cross society B.K. branch, 1992-1994
President of lions club palanpur 1997-98
Lifetime member of GOS, AIOS, IMA, Indian Redcross society
Bonafied member of lions club international 1992 onwards
First faculty to join BMCRI from palanpur city in 2017
Research paper:
1) Medical management of early pterigium
2) Injection bleomycin in ocular malignancy
3) An Observational study on Non contact Tonometer with the goldmann applanation Tonometer(GAT) to determine the intraocular pressure reading in healthy and glaucomatous population at a tertiary care centre of banaskantha and Patan district of Gujarat(India)./ European journal of molecular & clinical medicin(EJMCM)/ volume 08, issue 04,2021/ ISSN: 2515-8260
4) A comparative study between the retinal vein occlusion with serum lipid levels in adults in banaskantha district and adjoining area of Gujarat and Rajasthan(India)/ European journal of molecular & clinical medicine(EJMCM)/ volume 08, issue 04, 2021/ ISSN: 25158260
Assistant professor
Dr. Sonal Agrawal
More than 4 years of teaching experience after post graduation. MBBS (2005), FICO (2008). MS (2009), FCAS (2011)

Paper presented in International Conference
Coloured Diaphragm Sclera Fixated IOL in Patients with traumatic aniridia and cataract presented at International Society of Ocular Trauma (10th Meet) at Jaipur in October, 7th 2012
Paper presented in National Conference
Use of Fibrin Glue in Pterygium Surgery presented at Gujarat Ophthalmic Society Conference in 2008.
Paper published in International Journal
Study of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Suburban Population in India
International Journal of Recent Trends in Science and Technology, ISSN 2277-2812 E-ISSN 2249-8109, Volume 9, Issue 3, 2014 pp 349-352
Senior resident
Dr. Hitesh Sunilkumar Patel
Date of joining BMCRI 17/04/2021
Year of passing M.B.B.S. -2009
Year of passing DNB- 2017

Publications:
posterior capsular rupture & IOL surgery JNSCI vol. 02, issue 09, September 2015
Increased micro-protein in aqueous humor can cause after cataract IJCR vol 07, issue 09, september 2015
Fireworks eye injury : seasonal intervention is an important form of prevention. EC ophthslmology 2.5(2015); 151-154
A rare case: optic nerve glioma, Jarkhand journal of ophthalmology pp: 24-36 2015
Analysis of incidence, risk factor & visual outcomes of posterior capsular rupture in manual small incision cataract surgery. IJSR / issn 2277-8179/ VOL 10, issue 02, feb 2021
Basic course in biomedical research 2021
Senior resident
Dr.Bhagyashri M Prajapati
Qualification : MBBS from government medical college surat/

Junior resident
Dr.Dax Prakashkumar Desai

qualification : Mbbs – passing year 2019
Date of joining at BMCRI – 21/09/21