hearing to a child in the Armed Forces Hospital
A medical team at the Armed Forces Hospital in Riyadh achieved a medical achievement by performing a rare operation on a five-year-old child suffering from severe hearing loss and deformities in the external auditory canal, which made the child completely lose the sense of hearing. As the initial examinations revealed the presence of congenital malformations in the right ear and poor hearing.
This was explained by the Director of the Armed Forces Hospital in Riyadh, Major General Doctor / Saeed bin Muhammad Al-Asmari, who said that this success is in addition to the successive successes that are still achieved by the medical services of the armed forces in general and the Armed Forces Hospital in Riyadh in particular with the constant support and direction it finds from His Highness the Crown Prince, Deputy Chairman of the Council The ministers, Minister of Defense and Aviation, His Highness his Deputy, and His Highness Assistant for Military Affairs, for everything that would provide the best medical capabilities through qualified and trained cadres that are in line with the nature of the tasks undertaken by the medical services of the armed forces.
For his part, the treating physician, Dr. Khubti Al-Muhanna, an otolaryngologist, confirmed that after conducting the necessary examinations and x-rays, it became clear that the operation was necessary, which is the first implantation of a bone stethoscope called "Baha" at the Armed Forces Hospital in Riyadh. He pointed out that conducting such operations is considered a qualitative leap, but it did not gain the necessary popularity among doctors and the general public due to the scarcity of such operations. Where the bony stethoscope "Baha" is implanted behind the ear and delivers sound directly to the inner ear without the need to pass through the outer and middle ear. These headphones benefit a large segment of patients with hearing loss resulting from congenital abnormalities in the outer or middle ear. Also, these headphones benefit patients who are unable to wear traditional headphones due to frequent ear infections or severe conductive hearing impairment.
