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Dr. Nyadu Offei Cautioned Ghanaians Against Poor Ear Management

By Paa Paintsil-Winneba
Health Dr. Nyadu Offei Cautioned Ghanaians Against Poor Ear Management
SEP 2, 2015 LISTEN

Dr. Yaw Nyadu Offei, an audiologist and the Head of Centre for Hearing and Speech Services(CHSS), at the Department of Special Education of the University of Education, Winneba, has advised Ghanaians to abstain from self-medication and use of unapproved drugs that could affect the hear organ.

He said that the ear is an important component of the human body, hence the needs to ensure its effective management and sustainability. Dr. Nyadu Offei stated this during a sensitization and free Ear Screening for inhabitants of Breman Nwomaso in the Asikuma- Odoben -Brakwa District of the Central Region, a University of Education, Winneba’s social responsibility to give back the society and communities, especially the remote ones.

He said, the use of sticks and cotton buds for irritating ears should be avoided, rather, report of such cases should be made to the Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) nurses or medical facilities for professional advice and attention.

Dr. Yaw Nyadu Offei also cautioned parents against poor parental care for their children, adding that, a child with a hearing loss may not hear sounds or even respond to his or her own name. Such children begin to babble then stop for no explicable reason; sometimes they fail to use single word.

To detect such challenges, he said children go through little ears score approach called Little-Ears, parents respond to an auditory questionnaire and a parent(s) questionnaire of 35 items, based on the auditory behaviour of infants and children of 0 – 3-years. This is used as a screening tool to supplement other objective auditory measurement to give proper status of a child or Infant.

At Breman Nwomaso, the people were taken through Hear Check Screening, Orthoscopic examination and treatment. In all one hundred and eighty-one (181) people made up of mostly the aged and children under twenty (20) years were screened.

In another development, one hundred and thirty (130) people benefited from free screening exercise at Ayeldo, a farming community with a population of three thousand (3,000) in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District of the Central Region on August 28 2015.

In an exclusive interview after the exercises, Dr. Nyadu Offei appealed for more sponsorship to enable the team of audiologists continue with the hearing Screening in more remote communities across the country.

He said, the team among other things give counselling Services, Hearing Aid Fitting and Repairs, Ear washing, Pure Tone Audiometric Test with no-fees Charge. Dr. Yaw Nyadu Offei urged Opinion Leaders, Policy Makers, Philanthropists, Governmental and Non-Governmental organisations to support the Centre. The centre can be contacted on

0206864023 or E-mail: [email protected] for further enquiry.

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