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Amritsar, July 7 (Punjab Post Bureau) – SGPC runs Sri Guru Ram Das University of Health Sciences providing the 
gift of hearing to 12 deaf and mute children by operating them under its Program “Sound (Screening of Universal Neonatal Deafness)”. SGPC Vice President Surjit Singh Bhittewad, General Secretary Bhagwant Singh Siyalka, SGRD Charitable Hospital Trust & SGPC member Rajinder Singh Mehta visited all the operated Children in ward.
Bhittewad said though cochlear implant is a life changing surgery but cost of implant is an affordability issue for many people. He said these children are operated free of cost with implant sponsored by SGPC & SGRD University both. He further said SGRD University started its Cochlear Implant Program three years back on the occasion of Prakash Purab of Guru Nanak Dev Ji by operating two children Manjapand, Jaisvi. Both of them are speaking fluently and at par with normal children of their age, which is the true outcome of cochlear implant. He said these poor and needy children have been selected carefully from all over Punjab by the selection committee and are being operated upon by reputed Chief Operating Surgeon Dr. SP Dubey from Bhopal along with team of Surgeons of SGRD University which includes Dr. Arvinder Singh Sood, Prof. & Head ENT, Dr. Vanita Sarin Professor ENT, Dr. Bhanu Bhardwaj Associate Professor ENT, Dr. Jaskaran Singh Associate Professor ENT, Dr. Pooja Professor, Dr. Shubhdeep Kaur Professor Anaesthesia. Dr. Dubey has an experience of doing over 3000 implants. After this surgery these children will be able to hear and speak like normal children after proper training and therapy.
Dr. AP Singh said this university has successfully completed around 85 cochlear implantations. He said SGRD University has been regularly organizing screening camps in the region to create awareness regarding hearing loss in children and importance of early intervention.
