Financial and Geographic Barriers in Seeking and Utilizing Eye Healthcare in Bangladesh

Abstract

Measures that may increase accessing and utilizing eye health care may include introduction of health insurance covering fully or partially eye healthcare, spectacles and common eye surgeries and medicines and subsidize medical travel expenses; setting up of small satellite eye clinics, offering eye care services at Upazilla level clinics, offering tele-ophthalmology in underserved areas, providing incentives for eye doctors to practice in remote areas