Hearing Day: UBTH Provides 20 Hearing Aids To Deaf Children

The University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, Head and Neck Surgery (ENTH and surgery) has provided 20 hearing aids to children with deafness.
Chief Medical Director (CMD) of UBTH  Dr Darlington Obaseki, disclosed this during an awareness programme, to mark  the World Hearing Day, in Benin.
Obaseki, who was represented by Commandant, Military Hospital, CMAC UBTH Prof. Casmir Omuemu, stated that the World Hearing Day, was a campaign held globally every  year, by the Office of Prevention of Blindness and Deafness of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
“The activities take place across the globe every March 3. The campaign objectives are to share information and promote actions toward the prevention of hearing loss and improved hearing.
In line with the objective of marking the Day, the ENTH and surgery department of UBTH, distributed 20 Hearing aids, which included canal hearing aids to children with deafness.
The year 2020 theme: “Don’t let hearing limit you”, aims at encouraging the deaf and creating opportunities for them to hear through a hearing aid.
According to Dr Omuemu, “a hearing aid as a device designed to improve hearing by making sound audible to a person with hearing loss. “hearing aids are classified as medical devices in most countries, and regulated by the respective regulations.
“With a hearing aid, a deaf person would be able to hear better and communicate freely. “Limiting deaf persons is unfair. Just because one cannot hear doesn’t mean they are not human, “ he said.
He advised the general public to always assist patients with hearing problems and show them love and called on the government to fund health care delivery by providing hearing aids for the deaf in the state.