Rajkot: The GG Hospital Jamnagar managed by the state is the first of the Saurashtra region to carry out cochlear implant operations.
Children whose hearing is disturbed by birth requires cochlear implants.
The hospital has also started post-implant speech therapy for the three children who underwent cochlear transplant surgery on Monday.
The cost of the cochlear transplant around Rs 8-10 lakh makes it too expensive for less capable families.
With the GG Hospital managed by the state that marks the artificial organs for free, all these families no longer need to bother about expensive care.
On Monday, the expert team from Gandhinagar was issued to conduct an implant operation on three children – Jinal Andani, Ved Rabadiya and Dhruval Bavarva.
The Head of the GG Hospital Ent Department, Dr.
Niral Modi, received training for operations from Dr.
Niraj Suri, Nodal State Officer of Cochlear Implant.dr Br forex, Professor of the Department of Children MP Shah Medical College, Jamnagar, “at an average of 0.7% of children Children face hearing deficiency.
In this operation THT specialists remove damaged cochlea and embed the new ones that provide sound signals to hearing nerves.
“Children who have hearing deficiencies also do not learn to speak.
So, implants followed by speech therapy for 12 to 18 months.
Previously, patients had to travel to Ahmedabad because there was no state-run hospital in the Saurashtra area which was equipped to transplant.
Inform that some children are born with hearing loss while some loss of hearing capacity due to jaundice, epilepsy or damage to the brain.
Cochlea implants provide new rent for these children.