Command Hospital becomes first in country to conduct successful piezoelectric bone conduction hearing implants

Active piezoelectric bone conduction hearing implant system is an implantable medical electronic device for hearing impaired patients [conductive loss (including aural atresia), mixed hearing loss and single-sided deafness].The cost of the equipment has always been a concern, making its outreach limited.

There are certain group of patients with conductive/ mixed hearing loss or patients with single sided deafness, who are not candidates for cochlear implantation and do not benefit with hearing aids or middle-ear surgery. To reduce the associated disability, it is imperative to provide hearing augmentation for better academic outcome in children and social life in adults. Bone conduction implantation is the definitive hearing solutions in such groups of patients to rehabilitate them, and the Armed Forces Medical Services were quick to realise this.

DG Armed Forces Medical Services Lieutenant General Daljit Singh and DGMS (Army) Lieutenant General Arindam Chatterjee congratulated the Command Hospital for this achievement.

The ENT department of Command Hospital (Southern Command) is a designated neurotology centre of the Armed Forces Medical Services. The department has been providing implantable hearing solutions to clients for a number of years, said an official statement issued on Wednesday.

The Command Hospital (SC), Pune, is one of the premier institute of the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) presently commanded by Major General B Nambiar. The hospital was recently awarded the with the most prestigious “Raksha Mantri” trophy as the best hospital in the entire AFMS.