{"id":20900,"date":"2020-03-03T10:13:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T10:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrykskarzynski.pl\/?p=20900"},"modified":"2020-03-04T14:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T14:47:59","slug":"world-hearing-day-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrykskarzynski.pl\/?p=20900&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"World Hearing Day 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Hearing Day, initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO), is celebrated on the 3rd March each year. This year\u2019s edition under the slogan \u201eDon\u2019t let hearing loss limit you\u201d is widespread, as it is estimated that around 466 million people worldwide are suffering from severe hearing loss, and more than 1 billion people have a variety of hearing disorders that affect their everyday communication. The overwhelming majority of them live in low- or middle-income countries where they have no access to necessary medical services. The WHO data also show that although on average 83% of the world\u2019s population should use hearing aids, they do not. If effective measures are not taken in the area of prevention and treatment, by 2050 the number of people with severe hearing loss will increase to over 900 million. <\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u2013 The problem of hearing impairment has become a civilization disease\u00a0 a long time ago <\/em>\u2013 says Prof. Henryk Skar\u017cy\u0144ski, Director of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing\u00a0 \u2013 In the past hearing loss was considered a normal thing for a seventy-year old person, and it affects almost \u00be of the entire population at this age. Today’s civilization development, pervasive noise, earphones, loud music since early childhood, as well as ototoxic and immunosuppressive drugs, circulatory or metabolic disorders make this threshold shift from the age of 70 to the age of 50.<\/em> Fortunately, in Kajetany we can help almost every patient with hearing impairment – from a child to a centenarian.<\/em> \u2013 <\/em>adds Prof. H. Skar\u017cy\u0144ski.<\/p>\n

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The main celebrations of the World Hearing Day are organized annually at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. In recent years, more and more Member States and partner agencies are joining World Hearing Day by organizing a number of activities and events in their countries. In Poland, the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing and the Institute of Sensory Organs actively joined the celebrations, organizing many clinical and scientific activities:<\/p>\n