"EVERYTHING IN BANGLADESH WILL HAVE TO FLOAT SOONER OR LATER"

It's not just eye care that Friendship brings. Volunteer teams work in 15 specialist fields, including paediatrics , dentistry, orthopaedics, post-operative care and plastics-reconstructive surgery. In addition, Western surgeons help train their local Bangladesh counter-parts to develop their skills.

When disaster strikes, lack of medical knowledge can compound the problem; for example, drinking flood water can lead to outbreak of diseases such as diarrhoea. So Friendship has establishead more than 200 satellite clinics, 100 of them in the range of Lifebuoy Friendship Hospital. At these clinics an extended programme for immunisation, nutrition, mother-child care and family planning are explained