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3-Year-Old Iraqi Girl Arrives In The U.S. To Receive Cochlear Implant
Amina is a 3-year-old Iraqi girl born
with Profound Sensorineural Hearing Loss, which means total deafness. After
enduring a long and exhausting journey to make it out of her country and
travel to the United States, the child arrived this week in Miami, where
she will receive a cochlear implant at Holtz Children's Hospital, part of
the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. This procedure
will change her life forever, as she will have the ability to hear for the
first time.
Given that this surgery is not available in her native country and
since Amina's family does not have the resources to pay for the treatment,
the International Kids Fund (IKF) is working to raise the $40,000 needed to
change her life. Amina is not a U.S. resident; therefore, the public
hospital cannot use taxpayers' money to fund her operation. Instead, it is
offering the treatment to IKF at charitable rates.
"Amina is currently living in a prison because is hard for her to
communicate, even with her parents. Like any other child, she would like to
play with other kids and make friends. One of the activities that she
enjoys most is watching Tom and Jerry cartoons," said Maria-Luisa Chea,
director of IKF. "Today, we all have the opportunity to change her future
forever."
Shortly after Amina's birth, her parents noticed something was wrong
with their child; she did not make the usual noises nor respond to their
voices. When she was four months old, they took her to a doctor, who
confirmed that the child was completely deaf. After months of analysis and
medical examinations, they reached the final conclusion that this case was
hopeless in Iraq.
The medical team led by Thomas Balkany, M.D., Professor and Chairman,
Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School
of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Medical Center, will perform the cochlear
implant, named for the inner ear's medical term: cochlea. The surgery
consists of placing inside the cochlea an electronic device with electrodes
that collect impulses from a transmitter/receiver and send them to the
brain. The apparatus is accompanied by a speech processor that selects and
arranges sounds picked up by a microphone.
"Our expectations are that Amina will have a hearing capability of 80
percent, allowing her to hear her parent's voice for the first time shortly
after the surgery. The implant will enable her to have phone conversations,
attend normal school and be fully employed when she grows up," explained
Dr. Balkany. The child will have extensive auditory verbal training in
Arabic and three weeks after the procedure, the device will be switched on
and she will hear the world for the first time.
Amina's father first knew about IKF through an Iraqi engineer that met
the family by coincidence and was touched by the child's enormous efforts
to try to communicate with her parents. The engineer sent emails describing
Amina's story to everyone he knew, initiating a chain of contacts. An
officer of the U.S. Army Special Forces in the region heard about it and
spoke to Dr. Balkany, who brought the case to Chea.
International Kids Fund
http://www.internationalkidsfund.org
3 ani irakiene Girl ajunge în SUA Pentru a primi Cochlear Implant - 3-Year-Old Iraqi Girl Arrives In The U.S. To Receive Cochlear Implant - articole medicale engleza - startsanatate