World Hearing Day: Awareness as important as treatments to fix impairment

4 in 1,000 children in India suffer from hearing loss, according to WHO

Tamesh Chauhan was just five months old when his parents realised that he suffered from hearing impairment. His parents took him to a doctor and got a hearing aid, but that wasn’t enough.

“When he was nine, we went for a cochlear transplant. After that, with the help of therapy, he (Tamesh) slowly learnt to communicate like everyone else. Now, he attends school like other children, and does not face any difficulty in hearing, or carrying out any task,” Jyoti, the mother of the child, said, as Tamesh prepared to attend an online session.

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