By Chioma Obinna
The Chief Executive Officer of the International Hearing Centre Nigeria, IHC, Dr. Irene Okeke-Igbokwe has tasked Nigerians on the regular hearing checks to reduce the increasing number of hearing loss in the country.
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To this end, the centre is providing a month-long free hearing screening for Nigerians in Lagos.
Okeke-Igbokwe who is a fellow of the American Academy of Audiology, FAAA, and presently the President of the Nigerian Audiology Association, NAA, made the last week during a free hearing screening organized by the centre to mark this year’s World Hearing Day.
The IHC boss urged all Nigerians irrespective of their ages to pay special attention to their hearing status by undergoing hearing screening annually.
Okeke-Igbokwe who is also the former Director of, Nigerian Army Audiological Centre said the regular screening would reduce the increasing number of Nigerians suffering from all levels of hearing loss.
“Although there are no widely acceptable studies or data on the number of people with hearing loss in Nigeria, the World Health Organization, WHO, estimation is that 1.5 billion people in the world live with some degree of hearing loss, out of which around over 5 per cent of the world’s population or 430 million people require rehabilitation to address their ‘disabling’ hearing loss (432 million adults and 34 million children). It also projected that by 2050 2.5 billion people worldwide or one in four people will be living with some degree of hearing loss.
“Nearly 80 per cent of people with disabling hearing loss live in low and middle-income countries. Nigeria with the largest population in Africa falls into the category of low and middle-income countries.”
She explained that “IHC as a hearing health care provider for over 25 years in Nigeria is supporting the World Hearing Day 2021 by providing free hearing screening, free hearing aid checks all through the month of March 2021.
IHC is also providing counselling…
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