The director of the program for the prevention of deafness of the WHO Shelly Chadha, indicated that the situation is especially serious in childhood, where three out of four children suffer some type of ear infection before their fifth birthday.
Each of 15 people in the world suffer different levels of hearing loss, as reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) during the commemoration of International Hearing Day.
In this sense, he indicated that the situation is especially serious in childhood, where three out of four children suffer from some type of ear infection before their fifth birthday, an increasingly common phenomenon that, if not properly treated, can cause problems chronic and hearing loss.
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The director of the program for the prevention of deafness at the WHO, Shelly Chadha, pointed out that, “although hearing problems are very common, the services to treat them are still limited” and expressed that primary care does not usually have adequate training and this It is usually left in the hands of specialists.
According to Chadha, another problem faced by people with hearing problems is also the lack of specialized professionals, with barely one for every million people in developing countries.
“Given that hearing loss is common and increasingly frequent, the challenge that is presented is impossible to address without a reorientation of the care model, integrating this type of services into primary care,” he stated.
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