Ibn Al Haitham Teaching Eye Hospital is consider one of biggest specialized hospitals in the middle east. It offer a comprehensive range of eye health services in addition to ophthalmic emergency services over 24 hours per day, The Hospital opened since 1985.
The patients are predominately seen in general ophthalmic clincs and then channelld through to subspecialist ophthalmic clinics providing treatment of majority of conditions that can affect the eye.
It has large inpatients capacity (200 beds) and large number of operating rooms (16 Operating Rooms) for various types of ophthalmic procedures ( about 1000 major, super major and complex operations per month) and about 1500 minor and intermediate operations per month).
Ibn Al Haitham teaching Eye Hospital is most important teaching and research center in Iraq and consider the mainstone in ophthalmic post-graduate study and subspeciality trainning.