Egypt's Health Ministry conducts hearing tests for nearly 4M children

CAIRO - 22 January 2022: The Ministry of Health and Population said hearing tests have been conducted for 4.263 million children since September, 2019 as part of the initiative of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for the early detection of hearing problems and deafness in newborns.

Spokesman for the ministry Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said that the hearing of 466,241 children will be re-tested.

He said that 3,500 health units all over Egypt conduct hearing scans for newborns from one-day-old until 28-day-old.

Early detection of hearing problems helps in avoiding any hearing disability and facilitates treatment in addition to avoiding the problems of speaking, he said.

This comes as part of President al-Sisi’s initiative, which was launched in September 2019, for early detection and treatment of hearing loss and impairment.