The department started since the opening of the University Hospital as a department within the Surgery Department and then became a separate department in 1411 AH. It continued to develop to become one of the best departments in our beloved country. The Department of Ophthalmology is one of the clinical departments at the university hospital that witnessed the foundation of the Faculty of Medicine. The department is serving the community by providing medical care in the inpatient clinics and in the operation room, including a specialized clinic for the treatment of ophthalmology. It also receives hundreds of patients from Emergency room and.