World Centre for Partial Deafness Treatment to be created in Poland
Posted March 15th, 2010 in Business news by Ela Pawełek-LuberaThe Centre will be created in Kajetany near Warsaw. Part of the Centre should be ready to be used by mid 2011.
The Centre forms part of a recognition for Professor Henryk Skarżyński and the group of his co-workers. Profesor Skarżyńki is the director of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Warsaw and also the chairman of the International Centre of Hearing and Speech in Warsaw that performs the largest number of operations in the world that improve hearing. Together with his team he has worked out and introduced many pioneering inventions, research programs, therapeutic and rehabilitation procedures that are used around the world. His works contributed to the fast development of otolaryngology, audiology and phoniatrics in Poland.
In 1992 Prof. Skarżyński performed the first in Poland operation of implanting a cochlear implant on a totally deaf patient. This started a whole new program of healing deafness with cochlear implants.
In 1998 the professor was the first in Poland to heal deafness by using implants that he would implant in the cerebral. That very year he initiated a program that served to quickly discover damaged hearing of newborn and babies, a year later he initiated an original way of examining hearing, speech and eyesight – Internet examinations.
Scientists declare that the Centre will run projects on a new system for middle ear implants and internal research on gene therapy of deafness, tinnitus therapy and regeneration of the damaged inner ear. There are plans to start a pilot program of hearing tests of children in Europe.
Source: www.paiz.gov.pl
