Campaign to promote healthy ears

Ashray-Akruthi, a voluntary organisation working for the hearing impaired, unveiled a poster on Tuesday to mark the International Ear Care Day. The poster would be put up in the many govenrment schools and hospitals in and around the city. The poster was released by the chief guest B Venkatesham who is the secretary to Telangana’s home department.

Speaking at the occasion, Venkatesham said, “It’s not wrong to have a disability. With the right amount of treatment hearing disabilities can be cured. One must not hesitate to ask for help if any problem is found in hearing.” DPK Babu, director, Ashray-Akruti, said, “There is a great need to focus on the ear and hearing health of the people in the community.

At present our country lacks professionals like ENT specialists, audiologists and speech therapists and the needs of these people is largely unmet. We should think about having professionally capacitated community health workers in the area of ear health who would work among the people in the community.

Ashray-Akruti is keen to associate with likeminded organisations to serve the community in the area of ear care health.” He informed that Ashray-Akruti will shortly commence community ear health programmes among school going children and the aged from underprivileged backgrounds to address ear and hearing care among this group.