After renaming the cochlear implant scheme as ‘Shravana Sanjeevani’ and emphasizing the State government’s commitment to help children overcome hearing disorders, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dinesh Gundu Rao on Tuesday said the government has set its vision to actively work towards addressing hearing impairments among children through interventions such as cochlear implants at an early stage.
“Our vision and focus is to make Karnataka a hearing impairment-free State,” the Minister said, at the event of renaming the cochlear implant scheme and distributing hearing aids to the children who had undergone cochlear implant surgery, at the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH).
The programme was organised jointly by the Department of Health and Family Welfare and the AIISH.
