World Hearing Day celebrated with screening of babies at KATH
Graphic Online BY: Daniel Kenu 30.5k Shares 705 The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi has started a programme to screen all newborn babies to identify those with hearing impairment for early treatment as part of activities to mark this year’s World Hearing Day. The Head of the Audiology Unit of KATH, Dr Mrs Akosua Prempeh, said the programme was deliberately planned to help save newborns from developing hearing impairment diseases, which usually manifested when they were between the ages of two and three. "In Ghana, on the average, hearing loss is identified when the child is...
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