MTRH Conducts First Successful Cochlear Implant surgery
Moi Teaching and Referral hospital in Eldoret has become the first public hospital in East and Central
Africa to perform a successful cochlear implant surgery.
This comes after the operation was done on a young lady who was previously diagnosed with post-
lingual sensorineural hearing loss.
“This makes MTRH the first public hospital to undertake specialist surgery in East and Central African
region.The surgery,which took two hours,was on a young lady who was diagnosed with post lingual
sensorineural hearing loss and it went on successfully,”said MTRH CEO Dr Wilson Aruasa.
Cochlear implant surgery is a procedure that helps individuals with severe hearing loss regain their
ability to hear.
The surgery can be performed on children and adults who have developed hearing and speech but lost
hearing this improving the hearing and quality of life for people with severe hearing loss.
The operation was conducted by Doctor Menach Owen,an Otolaryngologist at the facility and Badr Eldin
Mostafa from Ain Shams University from Egypt who they were assisted by Doctor Rotich Gerald,Scrub
Nurses Francis Koskei and Fridah Kotut and audiologist Angela Kiragu.
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