By Tricitynews
Chandigarh 08th
July:– In
a commendable gesture a doctor at Shalby Hospital, Mohali with the help of his
elder brother have partially funded the cochlear implant surgeries for two
children.
Dr Dhiraj Gurvinder Singh an ENT
surgeon with the help from his brother, Jasbir Singh Dhiraj, who is a software
engineer in US, have arranged half of the surgery cost for two kids.
Nepalese migrant labourers’ kid,
who live in Panchkula was treated few months back, whereas a 3-yr old
baby girl of an auto rickshaw driver in Delhi was successfully undergone a
cochlear implant surgery at Shalby Hospital, Mohali today by Dr
Singh and Dr AK Lahri, senior ENT Consultant at Shri Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi.
Talking to media during a press
conference at Shalby Hospital on Monday, Dr Dhiraj Gurvinder Singh said that
due to high cost of cochlear implant the kids from poor families are often
remained deprived of this facility.
Dr Dhiraj Gurvinder Singh said that
he and his brother just want to help these poor kids whose families in the lack
of money can not go for implant.
Dr Dhiraj Gurvinder Singh further
shared that Post cochlear implant surgery, the kids are able to listen
normally after 2-week. Afterward they start speaking with training from speech
specialist and able to live a normal life.
Dr AK Lahri, who is among
one of the first cochlear implant surgeon in India said Congenital
deafness has an incidence of around 1 to 2 in thousand new born babies. For
such children early cochlear implantation is the only solution which can give
the child near normal or normal hearing.
We want to identify the problem as
early as possible among new born babies so that they can
underdo Cochlear implant surgery, said Dr Lahiri adding the
speech therapy is started after the surgery so that the babies could start
leaning speech process also which is not developed in these children.
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