HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 25 (ACN) On the occasion of International Cochlear Implant Day, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez stressed that the national cochlear implant program, one of the most sensitive and humane policies launched by the Revolution which has benefited more than 500 deaf and deaf-blind patients, remains a priority of the Cuban health system despite the shortages caused by the U.S. blockade.
As a specialized service included in the Cuban health care system, the National Cochlear Implant Program gives priority to children with multiple disabilities in need of these devices that turn sound into electrical signals sent to the patient’s brain and interpreted as sound.
On this date in 1957, French doctors André Djourno and Charles Eyries made history by providing a totally deaf person with sound perception.
Cuba performed the first extracochlear single-channel implant in 1987 and started to provide intracochlear multichannel implants 10 years later at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital in Havana.
Cuban President praises national cochlear implant program
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