Command Hospital Pune: Becomes India’s first govt hospital to conduct 2 piezoelectric BCIs.

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SHYAM SOOD

This hospital recently received prestigious ‘Raksha Mantri’ trophy in the AFMS.

RAJOURI-DELHI APRIL 10:–Command Hospital (Southern Command) Pune has become India’s first Government hospital to procure and conduct successful two piezoelectric bone conduction hearing implants (BCIs) under the command of Maj Gen B Nambiar.

Department of Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) at Command Hospital Pune has conducted two piezoelectric Bone Conduction Hearing Implants (BCI) one in a 7-year-old male child suffering from congenital external and middle ear anomalies with severe degree of hearing loss.

Another BCI was conducted in one adult who had Single Sided Deafness (SSD).
These patients were implanted successfully at Command Hospital (SC), Pune by Lt Col (Dr) Rahul Kurkure, Neurotologist, and Implant Surgeon under the guidance of Col (Dr) Nitu Singh, Senior Advisor & HoD (ENT).
DG Armed Forces Medical Services, Lt Gen Daljit Singh, and DGMS (Army), Lt Gen Arindam Chatterjee have congratulated the Command Hospital (SC) and wished many more laurels to the institute.

The ENT department of Command Hospital Pune is a designated Neurotology centre of the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) & has been providing Implantable hearing solutions to dependent clientele for several years.

The piezoelectric bone conduction hearing implant system is an implantable medical electronic device for hearing-impaired patients, including those with conductive loss, mixed hearing loss, and single-sided deafness.

The Ministry of Defence said that the cost of the equipment has always been a concern, making its outreach limited.
There are certain groups of patients with conductive/ mixed hearing loss or patients with single sided deafness, who are not candidates for cochlear implantation and do not benefit with hearing aids or middle ear surgery.

To reduce the associated disability, it is imperative to provide hearing augmentation for better academic outcomes in children and social life in adults.Bone conduction implantation is the definitive hearing solution in such groups of patients to rehabilitate them, and the AFMS were quick to realise this.

The Command Hospital (SC), Pune is one of the premier institutes of AFMS, presently commanded by Maj Gen B Nambiar.
The hospital was recently awarded with the most prestigious “Raksha Mantri” trophy as the best hospital in the entire AFMS.