Would you rather be blind than deaf? That’s a tough question; humans need all senses available to learn about their surroundings and perform in life.
But millions of children are missing out every year. Vision and hearing impairment costs economies billions in productivity, but it inability to detect and treat them costs children their future potential.
Ear, nose and throat specialists have called for hearing screening of children at birth to detect possible hearing impairment. But that has not become a policy in Nigeria.
With only around 200 ENT specialists to service the entire country, parents and their children have to deal with long waiting time and exorbitant costs.
“Hearing screening is not mandatory. This means hearing loss in most children is only detected when they are in school and it is impacting on academic performance,” says Nausheen Dawood, audiologist with the HearX, a project using a mobile app to screen children for hearing loss in South Africa.
“It is better children are detected early so they can have better outcomes and increase the impact on performance.”
Several studies are still evaluating the prevalence of hearing or vision loss among Nigerian children.
Some are born with impairments to their hearing and vision. A study of 400 newborns in Benin City found the ears of 90 babies did not emit a natural sound that ears normally do, signaling damage to the inner ear. Another 26 had hearing loss in both ears and 64 in one.

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