COVID-19: International Hearing Centre offers free screening
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By Chioma Obinna
To mark this year’s World Hearing Health Month, International Hearing Centre, IHC, Nigeria has begun free hearing health checks across its five centres in the country even as it stated that COVID-19 has isolated many with hearing loss.
Hearing Health Month is commemorated every May to raise awareness about communication disorders and available treatment options that can improve the quality of life for those who experience problems speaking or hearing.
Briefing journalists in Lagos, the Chief Executive Officer of the International Hearing Centre, IHC, Nigeria, Dr. Irene Okeke-Igbokwe, who is also a fellow of the American Academy of Audiology, AAA, said the organization was offering free hearing screening, free counselling on prevention of hearing loss and free hearing aid check as part of activities to mark the month in Nigeria.