HH Sheikh Hamad Hospital Resumes Cochlear Implants for Children in Gaza

HH Sheikh Hamad Hospital Resumes Cochlear Implants for Children in Gaza

HH Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Rehabilitation and Prosthetics Hospital in Gaza, funded by the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), resumed cochlear implants for the 9th group with a donation from the Qatari Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf) and Islamic Affairs.

In a press release published in Gaza on Sunday the hospital said that a group of deaf children will undergo cochlear implants for a week for the first time.

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the hospital, Sultan al-Asiri, said that the resumption of cochlear implants is a qualitative leap that has a great impact and is necessary not only for the hospital but for the presence of such a specialty in the Gaza Strip, which suffers from difficult conditions of siege and difficulty in accessing basics and the populations access to basic health services.

The implants help people with severe hearing loss as a result of damage to the inner ear, and who cannot hear using hearing aids.

Thus, this technology serves a large group of those who desperately need it in the Gaza Strip to continue the journey of giving and building their future and their communities, he said.

Al-Asiri stressed that focusing on such projects is an important boost of