THE BIHAR OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY was conceived in April, 1944 with the aim "to cultivate and promote ophthalmic and allied medical sciences including improvement of public health and medical education in Bihar from the ophthalmic point of view".

The Society came into existence in the campus of Eye Department of Patna Medical College & Hospital (then called Prince of Wales Medical College) with a handful of members, Dr. Dukhan Ram being appointed as its president. Dr. Paras Nath Sinha took the arduous duty of being its Secretary. Since then, for a number of years, in October/ November every year, annual general meetings were held in the Prince of Wales medical college, Patna.

After being in existence for good sixteen years the first Bihar Ophthalmological Conference was organised by the Society in Patna on 28th and 29th October, 1961.Since then it has been organizing annual conferences every year in month of November or December. Apart from annual conference Society is holding its Mid Term conference in month of May every year since 2007. The society has been able to publish its journal, Bihar Journal of ophthalmology Since 1973.When started the society had handful of members but today it has 535 life members.