Cataract Surgery Expansion 2026
Scaling our free cataract surgery programme to 1,200 operations per year across Habiganj and Sunamganj districts. Funded by the 2026 German Embassy grant.
Every CRUD project has a named lead, a published budget, a funder, and a set of outcomes. Here is the full ledger — active and completed.
Scaling our free cataract surgery programme to 1,200 operations per year across Habiganj and Sunamganj districts. Funded by the 2026 German Embassy grant.
Installing permanent eye-screening stations in 24 primary schools across Habiganj district. Each station screens twice weekly and refers to AMRI.
Six-month residential course for 40 village midwives. This is the 14th cohort since 2012.
Three-month computer literacy and digital skills certificate.
Upgrading the OCT scanner, replacing two slit lamps, and installing a new phacoemulsification unit at AMRI Eye Hospital, Habiganj.
Three-month practical clinical training for 30 paramedics serving remote unions.
Fortnightly eye camps deployed to villages across Habiganj, Sunamganj, and Moulvibazar.
CRUD medical teams deployed to Kutopalong refugee camp, Cox's Bazar, providing primary care and eye services to Rohingya refugees during the acute crisis.
Construction, commissioning and initial equipment of the Akhter Medical & Research Institute in Habiganj — CRUD's permanent base of operations.
First thirteen cohorts of the village midwife residential programme, placing 510 trained birth attendants across Sylhet division.
Largest single CRUD eye camp to date — 3,200 patients screened over five days in Baniachong Upazila, Habiganj.
Over 12 years, 21 cohorts of the three-month IT certificate programme have placed graduates in employment throughout Bangladesh and abroad.
25-year first phase of co-deployment with Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, delivering primary care and eye camps to over 200,000 patients across Sylhet.
German Embassy and DBHW format reports are available for every project since 2013. Older Red Crescent joint reports available since 2003.