The Faculty of Medicine celebrates the World Hearing Day

The Audiology Unit of the Faculty of Medicine, at Ain Shams University - a member of the World Hearing Forum - organized a celebration on the occasion of World Hearing Day, corresponding to March 3, which aims to raise awareness regarding the sense of hearing and promote medical care for the ear, in the presence of Prof. Ali Al-Anwar, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Chairman of the University Hospitals Board of Directors, Prof. Osama Mansour, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for Postgraduate Studies and Research, Prof. Hala Sweed, Vice Dean for Community Service and Environmental Development, Prof. Wafaa El-Khouly, Head of the Audiology Unit at the Faculty of Medicine, at Ain Shams University, with the participation of a group of professors of audiology at the Faculty of Medicine and various Egyptian universities and workers in the field of audiological rehabilitation and community service.

The celebration aims to spread community awareness about the importance of the sense of hearing and how to preserve it, introducing hearing diseases and their treatment, and ways to rehabilitate the hearing impaired by developing auditory and linguistic skills.

As well as a review of the services provided by the Audiology Unit at the Faculty of Medicine, at Ain Shams University, at the diagnostic and rehabilitative level of hearing diseases, with the participation of a group of hearing-impaired people who tell their stories on how to overcome this disability and their journey to achieve success and fully integrate into society so that they do not face great psychological, social and cognitive difficulties and to enhance their communication with The external community through social rehabilitation offices distributed throughout the Republic.

It is noteworthy that the slogan of World Hearing Day 2023 is "Ear and hearing care for all! Let's make it a reality." This year's World Hearing Day highlights the importance of integrating ear and hearing care into primary care, as an essential component of comprehensive health care.