Ophthalmology is outpatient-led and it is where most of the trust's free camp work is concentrated. Eye screening finds people who would never otherwise present, and brings them into a hospital whose charges are published.
What this department treats
Assessment starts in the outpatient department, between 9:00 am and 9:00 pm.
- Cataract assessment and surgery
- Vision testing and spectacles advice
- Eye infection and redness
- Eye injury
- Diabetic eye checks
- Glaucoma screening
- Watering and dry eye
- Free camp screening follow-up
Inside the department
Eye outpatient clinic
Examination and assessment, 9:00 am to 9:00 pm.
Cataract surgery
In the hospital's modular theatres.
Free eye camps
Screening run by the trust across Surat.
Diabetic eye checks
Alongside the medicine department.
Getting seen
- Start at the general OPD. Between 9:00 am and 9:00 pm, pay the consultation charge and you will be seen and directed here. That charge includes the medicine prescribed for that day. In an emergency go straight to accident and emergency instead.
- Bring what you have. Photo identification, any scheme or insurance card, and earlier prescriptions, scans or reports.
- Scheme check before admission. Cards are verified before admission rather than at discharge.
- Rates are published. The same rate applies to every patient in a category, with no negotiation at the counter.