About Dr. Rajashree Das
The only organ of your body giving you the feel of near to infinite and dark to light is your pair of eyes. If your eyes meet troubles, your vision becomes cloudy and blurry, and you resort to an eye specialist, who has the authority to handle the entire range of issues your eyes might encounter.
There goes the expertise of Ophthalmologist and Cornea Specialist Dr. Rajashree Das, equipped to ensure that your eyes are in the expert hands.
Her track record spanning a decade, Dr. Rajashree, an eye specialist based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, juggles the major arenas of Ophthalmology such as corneal diseases, Lasik, and Phaco Surgery.
A strong advocate of eye donation, she is advancing the idea that an eye in service to another eye restores vision in the entire world.
With significant exposure to the eye-care climate in Bangladesh, she has a strong conviction that when it comes to your eyes, you should never settle for something less than the best.
What are the procedure she actually does?
PHACO.
SICS.
DCR.
Pterygium.
LASIK.
PRK.
C3R.
Keratoplasty.
She has undertaken a fellowship on Cornea from LVPEI, Hyderabad, India, Shroff Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India, she accomplished an ICO fellowship on Phaco surgery and training on LASIK from Mahatme Eye Bank Eye Hospital, Nagpur, India.
Graduated from Sylhet Osmani Medical College, she later completed her FCPS (post-graduation) in Ophthalmology Bangladesh College of Physicians & Surgeons (BCPS) in 2010.
She performed, with medical acumen, more than 5000 procedures and surgeries (Intra-ocular/Extra-ocular) including PHACO, DCR, Pterygium, LASIK, PRK, C3R, and Keratoplasty in different centers of Bangladesh.
Her untiring efforts testify that the eye-care setup you would fly abroad for is available in Bangladesh too and perhaps even closer than you thought.
Endowed with multiple publications, she currently is a specialist consultant in Deen Md Eye Hospital & Research Centre.
Awarded with 3-months ICO FELLOWSHIP in Cataract Surgery incl. Phaco at Mahatme Eye Bank and Eye Hospital in Nagpur, India organized by International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO).
Successful completion of training in Refractive Error Correction (Lasik Surgery) from 22nd August, 2014 to 22nd August, 2014 organized by Mahatme Eye Bank and Eye Hospital, Nagpur & Mumbai, India.
Successful completion of Short term fellowship in Cornea and Anterior Segment from 1st July,2017 to 30th September,2017 organized by LV Prasad Eye Institute.
Successful completion of Long term fellowship in Cornea and Anterior Segment between 1st January,2018 to 31th March,2019 organized by Ispahani Islamia Eye Institute and Hospital Bangladesh.
Successful completion of SICS Short Training Programme organized by Ispahani Islamia Eye Institute and Hospital Bangladesh.
Participated Training on Cataract Surgery organized by Ispahani Islamia Eye Institute and Hospital Bangladesh.
Successful completion of short term training in Penetrating Keratoplasty (Hands-on-surgery) organized by Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital, Delhi.
Patient Education
Ophthalmologist
An ophthalmologist is a doctor who has the full authority of eye care and provides you with the gamut of eye care services.
1. Testing your vision, conducting eye exams.
2. Diagnosing and treating complications like glaucoma.
3. Carrying out surgeries for fixing cataract and other issues.
4. Tracing back diseases, like diabetes, not directly associated with eyes but passively contributing to eye complications.
Corneal Transplant
What is Cornea?
When you open your eye, its dome-shaped, transparent outer layer, known as the cornea, plays the role of a protective layer filtering out germs, dirt or something posing a threat to your eye.
Cornea also has a crucial role to play when it comes to eyesight. It paves the path for the light to bend and refract and enter the eye. Out of total 60 diopters of refractive capacity of the eye, cornea alone accounts for nearly 42 diopters.
Though cornea mostly fixes itself if something goes wrong, there are also certain issues (such as blurred vision and pain) due to infection, scarring and eventual loss of transparency that your eye specialist needs to take care of.
It is that part of the eye that, if diseased or affected, can be replaced with another healthy cornea from the dead body of someone who in his lifetime consented to donate his eye after death and help someone see.
What is Corneal Transplant?
Corneal transplant means replacing a damaged or affected cornea with a cornea from the eye of a donor. Dr. Rajashree did not just advocate for eye donation but demonstrated its practical benefit as well.
She restored vision in the eyes of hundreds of people through the corneal transplants she performed with success.
She touched upon all the major chords of corneal
transplant -
PK (Penetrating Keratoplasty),
DALK (Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty),
DSAEK (Descemet's Stripping automated endothelial),
DMEK (Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty),
Management of Ocular Surface Disorder,
Corneal Collage Cross-linking &
Stem-cell transplantation.
Eye Donation
You can be the eye of someone else. You can be the reason someone living with the fear of losing eyesight gets to see properly only within a few weeks.
This is the simple but life-changing truth Dr. Rajashree is poised to advance by voicing for eye donation. As a cornea specialist, she carries forward the idea that a donated cornea can restore vision to someone with deteriorating eyesight.
Cornea, if chosen by a person to donate after death, can be harvested within six hours into the death of a person. This cornea is then used to replace someone’s cornea that is wounded and not functioning the way it should. That is how someone with poor eyesight due to cornea issues can get back to vision.
As stated by a BBC report citing WHO, there are a total of 39 million visually impaired in the world, 4% of whom ‘suffer from corneal opacity (the scarring or clouding over of the cornea) while another 3% suffer from bacterial infections that result in damage to the cornea’.
While the planet is inhabited by more than 6 billion people, if even one out of every thousand people choose to donate their eyes no one in the world will incur deteriorating eyesight due to cornea issues. Since each one of us is bound to leave this mortal body someday, it seems wise to donate our eye, to pass the light of hope.
When to Consult
If you have any of the following complications regarding eyesight, you can consult her to get back your healthy eye and eyesight.
When Patients have any of the following symptoms :
If you have a hard time with your vision.
Nearsightedness (myopia) or farsightedness (hyperopia).
Any injury to the eye
Ingestion of chemical such as acid, alkali (chuna) in the eye.
If you suffer from trauma to the eye related to an accident.
If a kid gets his eyes pricked by pencils and toys.
If you have Keratoconus (a disorder resulting in the thinning of the cornea).
When you develop cataract and eventually blurry vision.
Redeness or pain in the eye.
White spot on black portion of the eye.
When Patients come to undergo the following procedures :
Lasik (for High Spectacle Power),
Keratoplasty,
PK(Penetrating Keratoplasty),
DALK(Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty),
DSEK(Descemet's Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty),
DMEK(Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty),
SLET (Simple Limbal Epithelial Transplantation),
Stem Cell Transplant,
AMG (Aminotic membrane graft) &
MMG (Mucous membrane grafting).
Consultation Time :
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
Saturday to Thursday.
Consultation Place :
Deen Mohammad Eye Hospital 2nd floor, 4,1/A Sobhanbag Road, Dhaka 1205.
Room number 109.
Patients' Feedback
In her journey spanning a decade, she dealt with nearly 5000 procedures and surgeries regarding the eyesight. No other experience could equal the feel of both the doctor and the patient on the moment he or she gets the eyes fixed and is offered a better vision of the world.
Take the case of a 7 years old boy who was suffering from penetrating corneal injuryas his eye got a pencil prick due to a silly move of his friend.
Dr Rajashree conducted a two-step surgery (repairing corneal injury and carrying out IOL implantation) on his eye. Now he can see well and is leading a normal life.
Among other cases that buoyed her up was that of 15 years old boy who was wearing high-power spectacles but still could not see well. Despite being seated on the first bench, he had a hard time with the words his teachers wrote on the whiteboard. Having reached a breaking point, he said, “Am I an abnormal baby?”
Dr. Rajashree prescribed Scleral CL. Now he has got back his vision and also the confidence that there is nothing abnormal with him.
Dr. Rajashree also fixed the eyesight of a 27 years old lady. She was suffering from advanced keratoconus in both the eyes. She then underwent C3R and then scleral contact lens is prescribed.
When she wore the scleral contact lens for the first time, tears of joy welled up in her eyes as she said, “Now I can see myself clearly in the mirror.”
Contact
To book an appointment with Dr. Rajashree for your eye checkup, contact
Call :
+88029144425, +8801551244492, +8801731185782