Generating awareness on Hearing Day Updated: Updated: Skit highlights importance of early detection and timely treatment Share Article Skit highlights importance of early detection and timely treatment The Departments of Pediatrics, and Community and Family Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bibinagar, organised an awareness programme on the occasion of World Hearing Day on Wednesday. The theme for this year is ‘Hearing Care for All: Screen, Rehabilitate, Communicate’. Undergraduate medical students performed a skit on the occasion, highlighting the importance of early recognition of hearing loss, screening and timely treatment. The participants were informed that hearing loss may result from genetic causes, complications at birth, certain infectious diseases, chronic ear infections, exposure to loud sounds, use of ototoxic medicines, and ageing.