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After 4
years of silence, Fatima can hear herself
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 06:12:57 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Doctors at a Delhi hospital Monday succesfully operated on a
four-year-old Iraqi girl suffering from deafness since birth to
restore her hearing. The girl was responding to sounds after the
surgery.
A doctors at the Apollo Hospitals, where Fatima Ali underwent the
surgery, said: "The girl was born without the auditory nerve, the
tool of hearing. We have carried out an operation to put an
electronic device in her brain to restore hearing sensation."
"It takes at least two months before the brain can respond to the
chip and can be switched on," senior surgeon of the Apollo
Hospitals Ameet Kishore, who conducted the surgery, told IANS.
The internal chip’s electrodes stimulate the brain to produce
sounds.
A team of surgeons and neurologists conducted the operation, the
average cost of which ranges from Rs.10 lakh to Rs.15 lakh
depending on the price of the equipment.
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