March 29, 2024

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25 years of changing lives – the official government website of the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba

Since 2009, on February 25th of every year, World Cochlear Implant Day is celebrated, when doctors Andrei Djorno and Charles Erez performed the first cochlear implant operation on this date in 1957. This day World Hearing Week kicks off Promoted by the World Health Organization, culminating in March 3 International Day of Hearings.

The World Health Organization estimates that one to three out of every 1,000 children are born with severe bilateral hearing loss, and one percent of them will need a cochlear implant.

According to estimates in Cuba, between 70 and 80 children a year are candidates for High tech implantation deviceTo achieve language rehabilitation and social integration.

In Cuba, the first extracochlear single-channel implantation was performed in 1987 and in 1997 multi-channel intracochlear implants began at Hermanos Amigiras Hospital.

Cuba has developed successfully 25 Years National Cochlear Implant ProgramPriority is given to children with multiple disabilities, including deafness and blindness.

Photo courtesy of Tribuna de La Habana.

program from Nationwide and completely free. It follows a multidisciplinary, cross-institutional and cross-sectoral approach; like him Specialized cochlear implant service and complex ear surgerybased in the Boras Marfan Children’s Hospital in Havana, detailed with all the provinces of the country.

So far they have Performed 528 transplants38 of them are for children who are deaf and blind, because it is the only alternative to achieve communication.

Image is from ACN.

It’s a program with Great international standing For the preparation of specialists, the availability of the latest technologies, the maintenance of rehabilitation and lifelong rehabilitation and integration with the family and school.