Getahun E, et al. – This article was written with the objective to ascertain the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of external ocular bacterial infections. The current study showed that the conjunctivitis was the dominant ophthalmic disease followed by blepharitis. The dominant bacteria species was S. aureus and methicillin–resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is increasingly prevalent. The overall multi–drug resistance (MDR) bacterial pathogen proportion was very high. The high prevalence of MRSA and MDR bacterial pathogens dictate the requirement for effective prevention as important as for therapies.