By Samachar Vishesh
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Panchkula 28th Dec:- To Create awareness on Hearing loss
in Children and Cochlear Implant Surgery a team of Doctors from Paras Super
specialty Hospital Panchkula, addressed the media person today. Present on the
occasion were Dr Sanjay Khanna,
Senior Consultant & Head , Dept of ENT & Dr Lokesh Mittal
Associate Consultant from Paras Specialty Hospital, Panchkula.
Addressing the media person Dr Sanjay Khanna said that about 226 million Indian are suffering from Disabling Hear
Loss and only 15000 Cochlear Implant have been done in India till date.” Deafness
or hearing loss means when a person is unable to hear. Disabling Hearing loss refers to hearing loss greater than 40
Decibels. According to W.H.O around 466 million people worldwide
have disabling hear loss, out of which 266 million are Indian and 34 million
are children. 60% of childhood hearing loss is due to preventable causes. He
further said that hearing loss may
result from genetic causes, birth complications, ear infections, few drugs,
noise exposure and ageing. It
has been estimated that by 2050 over 900 million people or one in every ten
people will have disabling hearing loss; however, India has already
reached this scenario. The majority of people with disabling hearing loss live
in low- and middle-income countries. Approximately one third of people over 65
years of age are affected by disabling hearing loss and the prevalence in this
age is greatest in South Asia, Asia Pacific and Africa.
W.H.O refers the “hard of hearing’
to those people who have hearing loss ranging from mild to severe. These people
can get benefit from hearing aids, Cochlear Implants and other assistive devices. However, those patients including children
and adult who are having significant or profound hearing losses can be only
benefitted from Cochlear Implant surgery.
Speaking on this occasion Dr Sanjay
Khanna who has performed the 1st Cochlear Implant Surgery of
Panchkula in a 4-year-old child at Paras Hospital, Panchkula. He said
that Cochlear Implant is a Gold
Standard surgery for children who are profoundly Deaf (Hearing loss
more than 90 Decibel). The
earliest this device is implanted, the sooner a child can hear and speak’. Dr
Sanjay Khanna has wide exposure and expertise in Cochlear Implant Surgery and
Sleep Apnea Surgery.
He further enlightened that
in a surgical procedure of 3-4 hours implant is placed inside the inner ear of
the patient. After this implantation a child has to undergo speech therapy
session for at least two years. With
the help of this procedure deaf and dumb children can learn to hear and speak . To
diagnose if a child can hear or not, early hearing screening of new born is necessary.
OAE, which is a basic hearing screening test, is performed to check whether a
child can hear or not in future or the child is hearing impaired. This test can
be done after second day of the birth. In more advance countries like US,
Europe and Australia more implants are being done in adult population as
elderly patients are unable to understand speech despite the best quality
hearing aids.
Dr. Sanjay Khanna gave an insight
on this device and “Cochlear Implant is an electronic device that provides
sound signals from damaged or non functioning part of inner ear to the brain.
Cochlear implant has two parts, the first part is surgically implanted into the
bone surrounding the ear which consists of a receiver stimulator that decodes
and sends an electrical signal to the brain. The second part is an outside
device which is made up of a microphone or receiver, speech processor, and an
antenna. This part receives the sound, converts it into an electrical signal
and sends it to the inside part of the cochlear implant’’
Dr. Sanjay Khanna said in Haryana more than 115,000 people have some form of hearing loss and
this number is increasing. To check the increase in number of
children going undetected and subsequently crossing the appropriate age for
treatment, a Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) program is urgently
needed in Haryana. Paras hospital, Panchkula has all facilities for early
diagnosis, intervention and habilitation for children identified with various
forms of hearing loss.
Ashish Chadha, Facility Director,
Paras Hospital, Panchkula said that in India, four in every 1000 children suffer from severe to profound
hearing loss, with over 100,000 babies born with hearing deficiency every year. The
estimated prevalence of adult-onset deafness in India is 7.6% and childhood
onset deafness 2%, according to Union Health Ministry. Hearing disability is
the second most common cause of disability in India.
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