The waiting line for hearing cochlear prosthesis has reached zero

According to Fars news agency’s health department, Seyyed Hossein Safavi said about the latest measures taken for children in need of cochlear implants: According to the order of the Minister of Health regarding the implementation of the national cochlear implant reform plan to speed up and facilitate the handling of the problems of candidate deaf patients. Hearing cochlear implantation and minimizing the waiting line and following the negotiations and approvals of the meetings of the National Cochlear Implantation Commission, the steps of supplying and allocating prostheses to all patients waiting for cochlear implantation were placed on the agenda of the board of trustees for saving currency in the treatment of patients.

He added: By accelerating the supply of cochlear implants, the Board of Trustees of Erzi Saving Cochlea issued remittances for 688 prosthetic devices to be delivered to cochlear implant centers across the country, and in this way, the waiting line of patients to receive prosthetics from the Board of Trustees of Erzi Saving Currency was reduced to zero.

The head of the board of trustees of saving foreign currency in the treatment of patients stated: including 521 prosthetic devices sent to cochlear implant centers before the announcement of the implementation of the national cochlear implant plan, the total remittances issued for the delivery of prosthetics to cochlear implant centers from the beginning of this year to date On the 9th of September 1401, it reached 1209 devices, which is a record compared to the number of prosthetics delivered in the first six months of last year.

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