CivilNet: Giving children the ability to hear

CIVILNET.AM

30 Sep, 2021 08:09

Around 40,000 children are born in Armenia each year. Out of those, roughly 40 are born deaf. Thanks to a device called the cochlear implant, a simple surgery allows children to hear again. In Armenia, there is only one hospital where the cochlear implant surgery is performed, it’s in the Erebuni Medical Center. Dr. Shukuryan and his staff have been operating and giving children the ability to hear for years. They have helped around 160 children since 2004 with the crucial help of the Armenian International Medical Fund.

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Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS