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Experts Call for State Subsidy for Cochlear Implants

by Gopalan on September 24, 2007 at 2:57 PM General Health News

As per the estimates of the World Health Organization (WHO), there are approximately 63 million people in India suffering from significant auditory impairment. This places the prevalence at 6.3 percent of the nation's population.

According to the National Sample Survey Organisation 2001 survey, there are currently 291 persons per one lakh population suffering from severe to profound hearing loss.

Of them, a large percentage are children below the age of 14 years. Then there are the elders above 60 years of age and the lifestyle changes that the impairment forces on them. Self-esteem could be badly affected.

Cochlear implants offer a way out of hearing impairment. They are surgically implanted electronic devices, often referred to as a bionic ear.

The cochlea is the auditory portion of the inner ear.Contrary to hearing aids, cochlear implants do not amplify sound. Instead they use electrical impulses to directly stimulate any functioning auditory nerves within the cochlea. External components of the cochlear implant include a microphone, a speech processor and a transmitter.

Under appropriate conditions, an implant can give a deaf person a useful auditory understanding of the environment and/or hearing and help them to understand speech, although post-implantation therapy is usually required. According to researchers at the University of Michigan, approximately 100,000 people worldwide have received cochlear implants; roughly half of them being children.

At the moment the benefit of the implant does not reach many because of the prohibitive cost of the device, surgery and post-implantation therapy.

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Munnu(Guest)

10/17/2011

This article says", Dr Lt Col A. Ravi Kumar, Professor and Head, Department of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute. The prestigious institution, situated in Chennai, capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is the ONLY medical college in the state to perform cochlear implants". This is mainly because of the Cochlear Implant monopoly in the country. Visit www.indiahearing.org to know about the same. Munnu.

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avnika(Guest)

09/21/2011

my 3.5 year old baby are using digital hearing aid [8 band and 6 channel] from last 2 years and speech therapy also continuing at Meerut , but speech not coming proper although she trying more , according expert she can hear up to 40-45 desible sound through this aid, her loss was 80-90Db . can she recover his speech? reply me on my id if possible, (sushil_panwar@rediffmail.com)

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ritesh07

09/20/2011

can u please let me know that if there is any bank in india that give loan for cochlear implant.if yes then please let me know.My email id is rit0073@gmail.com.Please let me know quickly because my sister need cochlear implant urgently.

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MVK50

08/23/2011

My son is 1 3/4 years of age and he needs Cochlear implant surgery. My financial position is bad. So I want to know any Govt. organizations help in this matter. I am living in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. My mail id is mvk9400@yahoo.in

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Vava29(Guest)

11/25/2010

my kid also needs CI.is there any organisation that funds this surgery, as we cann't affort it

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prakash32

07/11/2010

My son is a hearing impaired child age 6 years. He has profound? but I cannot manage cochlear implant due to financial problem. Is there any organization giving funds for the same

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kohli(Guest)

01/15/2010

My son is a hearing impaired child age 5 years. He has profound? but I cannot manage cochlaar implant due to financial problem. Is there any organisation giving funds for the same.

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tarak

11/05/2009

Dears

I would like to ask you the contact list of orthophonist in Libya , in fact my daughter installed a cochlear implant in europe and we have to find someone once we will back to tripoli

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT

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guest

07/15/2008

plz if there is cochlea assistant center or person in libya ineed microphone, and a transmitter

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tarak

11/05/2009

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guest

05/03/2008

I would like to know if there is any significant development made by DRDO on cochlear implants.

I am working on an initiative to make Cochlear Implants affordable - in case anyone in this domain is interested in contribution by way of knowledge dissemination.

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guest

02/01/2010

Hi Subir, I am very interested in this initiative of making Cochlear Implants affordable and would like to initiate discussions with you on this subject. I work with a company based out of Bangalore, India called Medived which makes advanced medical technologies affordable for emerging markets. We currently manufacture implantable devices such as pacemakers as well as implantable leads, programmers and PSAs at our facility. Please let me know if you are interested to chat further on the subject. Thanks.

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