Testing for hearing impairment under way at Chinnambedu village near Red Hills. Photo: Special Arrangement
In a three-pronged intervention, a soft audiometer developed at the varsity in Guindy is central to how residents at Chinnambedu village get screened, tested and treated for problems of hearing impairment
A fashion industry is built around the retina. In squares, rectangles, pentagonals and so on. Just inches away, the ear languishes in relative obscurity. Hearing aids only rarely become faddish. On closer scrutiny, this argument is specious. In any given population, those requiring a hearing aid would be outnumbered googolplex times by those in need of spectacles.