Cochlear implants are not covered by health insurance and only 20 per cent of patients can find the money. Dr Amanda Kvalsvig, an epidemiologist working on the country’s Covid-19 response, said, having waited for a cochlear implant herself, she was excited for those on the waiting list.
JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON/STUFF “Access to communication is not a nice-to-have. It’s essential for wellbeing, Kvalsvig said. “I don’t think many people understand the impact of losing your hearing on your sense of belonging, your sense of purpose, even your sense of identity. “It’s not just interactions with strangers of course – it’s your own family. I had no idea what my children’s voices sounded like.”
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The UK has scrapped three rounds of grants to small international development charities, prompting fury that it has wiped out funding for 42 projects around the world to save âless than the [£2.6m] cost of the Downing Street press roomâ.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) told charities last week that rounds six, seven and eight of the Small Charities Challenge Fund (SCCF) would not go ahead because of aid cuts, cancelling in total about £2.1m of funds earmarked for new and future programmes, including many that had been approved.
âThe cruelty of these cuts cannot be overstated. For less than the cost of the Downing Street press room, small UK charities would have delivered more than 40 transformative projects to the worldâs most vulnerable people,â said Jess Price, a director at Health Improvement Project Zanzibar. âInstead of delivering this critical work, we are now trying to reco
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Prince Philip was taken to the King Edward VII Hospital in Marylebone, London, as a precautionary measure
The 99-year-old s illness is not Covid-related and decision to admit him was taken with abundance of caution
Royal author Penny Junor said Prince Philip would be outspoken if he felt people were making a fuss of him
Royal sources say that he remains in good spirits and that the Queen has stayed at home at Windsor Castle
Her Majesty pressed ahead with her duties yesterday by receiving Royal Naval update from the First Sea Lord
It comes after it was announced on January 9 that the royal couple had received their first doses of Covid jab