Rajouri Rotary Club organized free hearing screening/speech therapy camp

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SHYAM SOOD 

RAJOURI OCTOBER 27:–The Rotary Foundation’s mission is to help Rotary members to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace by improving health, providing quality education, improving the environment, and alleviating poverty.
In one such endeavour Rotary Club Rajouri Grand in collaboration with Rotary Club, Jammu organised a free hearing screening and speech therapy camp here in Rajouri on Friday.
The camp was organized in the government middle school at Jawahar Nagar (Rajouri) and many people from different age groups and spheres, including children, got their hearing screened.
In the camp Dr. Navneet Gupta Assistant Professor, Department of ENT(Consultant Audiologist and Speech Pathologist ASCOMS & Hospital); Puneet Gupta, Managing Director JK Electronics Ear & Prime Speech and Hearing Clinic Jammu (Hearing Aids Specialist), and Chanderbhanu Patra, Audiologist and Speech Therapist JK Electronics Ear & Prime Speech & Hearing Clinic provided their services in the camp.
15 patients having profound hearing loss were screened in the camp and the team of experts counselled and advised them for cochlear implant surgery.
A cochlear implant is a small, complex electronic device that can help to provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard-of hearing. The implant consists of an external portion that sits behind the ear and a second portion that is surgically placed under the skin.
Rotary Club Rajouri Grand in a goodwill gesture has offered to bear some amount of cochlear implant surgery for the BPL patients among the 15 screened for profound hearing loss.
Dr. Vidushi Badial, HoD ENT GMC Rajouri said: “Hearing loss is commonly seen in elderly individuals and people with hearing loss find it hard to hear and understand speech at normal conversational levels”.
The camp was organised under the close supervision of President Rotary Club Rajouri Grand, Rajesh Mehta; Club Secretary, Dr. Sachin Vaid and was also attended and supported by chartered president Rotary Club Rajouri Grand, Lokesh Bakshi, Rotarian Rakesh Gupta, Rotarian Umesh Sharma, and Rotarian Rafiq Mir.