Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust - LRBT
Muhammad Usama is an experienced ophthalmologist currently serving as an Associate Ophthalmologist at LRBT, the largest eye care provider in Pakistan, since September 2022. Previously, Muhammad Usama held the position of Consultant Ophthalmologist at Hashmanis Hospital and POB Eye Hospitals Karachi, with experience in providing routine eye care, performing corrective surgeries, and managing various ophthalmic conditions. Muhammad Usama's career in ophthalmology began at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, followed by a residency at Patel Hospital Karachi, where involvement in the Tumour Board was notable, particularly in managing Retinoblastoma patients. An early foundation in medicine was established as a House Officer at Civil Hospital Karachi, covering multiple medical specialties. Muhammad Usama earned a Master of Surgery in Ophthalmology from the College of Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from Dow University of Health Sciences.
Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust - LRBT
The Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust (LRBT) is a charity organization which is devoted to the prevention of curable blindness and impaired vision in people who live around the poverty line. Although 80% of blindness is curable, most of it due to cataract, lack of facilities and the inability to afford the treatment/surgery expands the pool of blindness. Over the last 32 years we have been instrumental in reducing the prevalence of blindness from 1.8 % to 0.9 % of the population. However there are still 1.8 million blind people in the country and another 17.9 million have impaired vision, so there is a huge amount to do. We are now operating 19 Hospitals and 52 Community Eye Care Centres & 4 Outreach Clinics. During the year ending June’17 we treated over 2.9 million poor patients in OPD and performed over 267,000 major & minor surgeries free. LRBT is the major provider of eye care in the country treating 36% of all eye patients, performing 27.4% of eye surgeries and 32% of all Pediatric eye surgeries. We crossed the 38th Millionth patient treated milestone in February 2018 and will be reaching the 39th Millionth patient milestone by end June 2018. LRBT impacts & improves the life of more patients than any NPO in the country.