HISTORY OF BIHAR OPHTHALMOGICAL SOCIETY

Such conference have great utility value, Besides providing social contact, they are of great educative value to the youngsters in the speciality as well as to ophthalmic medical practitioners. A souvenir is published to mark each conference, in these conferences, we have also started an extra - mural lecture, the first lecture being Dr. R. P. Dhanda, who is 1965 spoke on corneal grafting at Darbhanga on the occasion of the 4th Annual conference. Since then, we are continuing this practice.

To promote greater cohesion and exchange of ideas, thoughts and practising techniques and in a more familiar way and surrounding ophthalmologists of Eastern States of the country ( with more or less similar incidence and nature of eye diseases) have formed a Regional Organisation, the Eastern India Zonal Ophthalmological Congress ( EIZOC). The first such conference was held in Calcutta in 1985, the third one in Patna in 1987 and again at Ranchi, in November,1994 ( the IXth in series).These have created a bigger rapport amongst the eye surgeons of Eastern India, Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Orissa, Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh. To keep the members abreast of increasing scientific knowledge a memorial lecture Dr. Bhagwan Pd. Singh memorial lecture series was started in 1972 in which we had speakers like Dr. A. S. H. Rahi from London and Dr. P. K. Basu from Toronto ( Canada) . Unfortunately due to discontinuation of financial grant from the family members of Late Dr. B. P. Singh, we could not continue the series beyond 1976.

The society has been able to publish its journal, Bihar Journal of ophthalmology Since 1973, wherein we have scientific papers as also reports of our activities. The credit for this goes to our dynamic colleague Dr. Ajit Sinha. Before This journal was published, our scientific activities and papers were published in the Patna Journal of medicine in its ophthalmic numbers.

The Society has been able to organise two A.I.O.S. Conference in Patna in year 1952 & 1970 Four of our Stalwarts become president of All India Ophthalmological Society namely Dr. Dukhan Ram, Dr. Paras Nath Sinha, Dr. A. N. Pandeya & Dr. Ajit Sinha.

Another important addition has introduction of Mid Term meetings.Apart from annual conference Society is holding its Mid Term conference in month of May every year since 2007. The society had handful of members when it started in 1944 but today it has 535 life members.

Our Society has matured and many laurels are yet to come to its Kitty.

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