Department of Ophthalmology, HBTMC & Dr RN Cooper Municipal Hospital

We had the chance to welcome Ameya Chandavarkar (director, FDC) to the Ophthalmology OT when he visited the hospital for a routine eye checkup.
FDC is instrumental in starting the Retina care ( posterior segment ) services at Cooper Hospital by donating its first vitrectomy machine. Last year we were performing 1-2 retina surgeries a month and now we have a waiting list. So many patients have benefitted from this low cost and emergent care. In the photo is also young retina surgeon Dr Sandeep Arora who along with Dr Harsh*t Vaidya are doing wonderful work in that area. This also helps us teach our UG and PG students

Integrated teaching
Dr Sandeep Arora teaching physiology residents about slit lamp examination, indirect ophthalmoscopy, topography, tonometry, etc
As per new curriculum

Women’s Day celebration in OT with our new sister in charge

Creative and program for today’s successful integrated CME program : “Diabetes and the Eye“ at Dr R N Cooper Hospital .. pictures and details to follow

New recruits in the fire brigade being assessed by the Department of Ophthalmology as part of their medical fitness. Thanks to our optometrists Puru and Akash! 75 assessments for vision and colour vision on the first day..
Appreciate these young people ready to become firefighters

At the World health day event organised by Department of Community Medicine
Dean Dr Shailesh Mohite, Founder and ex Dean Dr Chaturvedi and HOD Comm Med Dr Kembhavi spoke on various aspects of the theme
Street play competition, Debate, reels competition, Poster competition were part of the event
In keeping with the theme, break time snack was sprouted bhel and chaas or buttermilk

Cooper hospital team ( Dean Dr Mohite, HOD Ortho Dr Dasgupta, HOD Forensic Medicine Dr Sukhdeve, with spouses and HOD Ophthal Dr Mandke and Dr Mhashal ) at the Lions Club Of Juhu annual Fundraiser at Nehru Centre seen here with Philanthropist Sheela Shah and Mr Shah to celebrate the long association between us for service to the Underserved

Brilliant evening at with the current and past teams at the Cooper Ophthalmology Department..

It’s been a fascinating ride making so many friends along the way many of whom are like family..

Chaat & Dosa counters, Naturals Mango icecream, cupcakes is the perfect dinner combination

It was a good opportunity for the young residents at the beginning of their journey to meet with those who have been there and done that and now tasting success on their own terms ..and for everyone to reminisce on their experiences in a young fledgling department

Many who were out of town, unwell or otherwise unreachable were sorely missed.

Team lunch with faculty and residents

I am proud of my team. And yet as the team expands it’s difficult to know them all well and sometimes communication must be encouraged ..

So we played a game while waiting for dessert! .. everyone had to write something good about their colleagues (and themselves ) anonymously. Everyone read out the sheets which had all the wonderful things the rest of the team wrote about them!

A fun lunch !

Eye checkup camp along at Mookdhwani School Parle east in Assoc with lions club juhu
There were 62 hearing impaired children . Age grp 3. -21 yrs. Dr Namrata Bansode and Optometrist Puru Mengane screened them all with the corporation of their very committed teachers and have invited them for further refraction to Cooper hospital on special days

First ever faculty picnic of a medical college organised by the Dean had all the ingredients for a successful Sunday well spent. Long drive along lush green roads, Antakshari in the bus, snacks and hot meals amidst nature, team building games, adventure activities such as river crossing , commando crossing and Burma bridge. The cherry on the cake was extended rain dance even as rain remained elusive and then the journey back. Even the customary bus breakdown as we reached the city added to our adventure

although we were unhappy about the fact that our operation theatre was shut for a few days due to some repair work and our patients had to wait, we had some great extra PG presentations on basic clinically relevant topics.. time well spent! Always learning

Today 13th August 2022 is the WORLD ORGAN DONATION day.

We as ophthalmologists were part of the Wonderful event organised at Dr R N Cooper Hospital Mumbai by Anatomy department. Currently only eye donation is carried out at Cooper but hopefully such awareness programs will inspire organ donations and body donations as well in the near future

The skit by 1 st MBBS students of HBTMC was well performed and received and an eye opener for the general public. I have included some clips in the next post

International Nurses Day celebration with nurses from OPD and OT in the Ophthalmology Department

HinduhridaySamrat Balasaheb Thackeray medical college and Cooper hospital inaugurated its beautiful new college building.

Department of Ophthalmology is thankful to Lions Club of Juhu and Polestar Maritime Limited for the donation of slit lamp microscope, applanation Tonometer, vision chart and Volk 90D and 4 mirror lenses. This enables us to see more patients quicker while reducing wait time in OPD.

Today is World Sight Day 2021!
Theme is to ensure


pledge to get your vision tested and encourage others to do the same

We can promote equitable eye care accessibility to ensure
Children given a chance to reach their potential
Growth in productivity to boost global economy
Disadvantaged communities have better access to eye care
Eye care as a part of primary health care
Eye care enabled in workplaces

Kicking off Eye donation awareness fortnight with an awareness program at Cooper hospital in association with EBCRC in presence of Dean Dr Shailesh Mohite and Eye bank personnel.

Dr Amrita Ajani our cornea surgeon and Assoc Prof, presented keratoplasty cases already completed successfully in Cooper

We had a very special guest MR Satish Kazi who narrated his heartwarming and inspiring story about donating the eyes of his son who died prematurely at a very young age of 7.

We thank Mankind pharma for tea and refreshments.

Camp at Snehasadan orphanage for girls for examination of vision and general health by our residents and interns on Independence Day in association with Partners in service, Rotaract Club Of Medicrew

Jagruti Munje and Neha Saswade ( Ophthalmologists ) coordinated and successfully completed it

Special thanks to Dr Wani and doctors from Dept of Gyneacology and Alekha Bhalerao.

Every person in a team is vital for the team to function as a unit. We bid farewell to Preety Chaudhari for now but she isn’t going too far. We will miss her. Few changes in august.

Admiring and using the new instruments for and orbital surgeries along with our oculoplasty surgeon

These were donated very timely by via just as the surged and we needed new good quality instruments to afford the best we could perform as surgeons

Good quality sharp allow surgeons to give best outcomes in varied circumstances reducing surgical time, minimising tissue handling and unnecessary loss of tissue or blood.

surgery is teamwork

Entire department enjoying a meal together after a short CME got the first time since January end when the second wave hit us. It’s important to share lighter moments as a team to keep morale up

Post covid instructions for patients to prevent MUCOR

Ophthalmology screening by Department of Ophthalmology, Dr R N Cooper Hospital, at Police camp (through Human rights association for protection) at Mumbai International Airport on 15 and 17 th February 2021.

300 police and other personnel screened including rickshaw and taxi drivers. Some near vision glasses were distributed, education on visual hygiene, distribution of necessary eye drops was carried out too

In addition to our resident doctors and optometrists,
Mr Jadhav organised some low cost reading glasses
Gunjan from Eyecare kilitch and Sameer from Pharmatak also helped out by distributing some necessary lubricating eye drops.

excellent panel on fears and facts related to microbes, vaccines and the COVID story as it unfolds.

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Dr R N Cooper Hospital is the first in Mumbai and Maharashtra to set up the model COVID 19 vaccination centre and completed the dry run today. All set and awaiting the vaccine. Doctors ans staff have worked really hard and continue to do so. We are Proud to be a part of HBT Medical College and Dr R N Cooper Hospital.