Org Name Original: SEHA – Ambulatory Healthcare Services, UAE
Altered Org Name:
Contact First: Snithin
Contact Last:Sasheendran
Project Title: World Hearing Day 2022 Awareness Program
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AFR:
EMR: United Arab Emirates
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Event Purpose: Launch/promote the safe listening standards, World Report on hearing-related activities, Facilitate policy dialogue, Advocacy with policymakers, Awareness-raising, Education and training, Programme launch, Hearing screening, general public
Primary Audience: Policymakers, General public, Children, Adolescents, Adults, Health care workforce
Estimated In Person Reach: Local, National, Regional
Audience Reached: Children and adolescents, Adults, Older adults
Specific Workplace: Healthcare workers
Screen Newborn and Infant:
Screen Children and Adolecents: Unknown if any participants
Screen Adults: 50
Screen Older Adults: 50
Policy Maker: Chief medical Officer and Higher management of Ambulatory Healthcare Services – SEHA, UAE
Influencer: Snithin Sasheendran, Audiology Team Lead, Ambulatory Healthcare Services- SEHA, UAE
Traditional Media: 1000
Traditional Media Numbers: 1000
Social Media: Instagram
Social Media Numbers: 1000
Event Description:
Ambulatory Healthcare Services, a SEHA Healthcare Facility, and the largest network of healthcare centers in the UAE, ran a full campaign on the occasion of World Hearing Day. The campaign focused on raising awareness on hearing loss, alleviating the suffering of people with hearing difficulties, and promoting services related to hearing. The campaign included press release highlight the campaign activities, Free hearing aids distribution for four patients, Social media posts, Internal Webinar for healthcare providers and External Webinar focusing on the effects of Video Gaming on hearing.
WHO Educational Materials Used: Yes
Native Written Language: English and Arabic
Educational Materials Available in Your Language: Yes
Did You Translate WHO Materials: No
Would You Consider Assisting Us: Kannada, Malayalam
What Additional Materials Would Be Helpful:
Safe usage of Headphones/ Earphones for work, video gaming; advise of Noise Cancellation Headphones use; safe use of ear protectors; List of occupations which are at risk for noise induced hearing loss (including hospitals); Who is an Audiologist ?- Importance of contacting an Audiologist for hearing evaluation; Importance of Hearing screening in Schools
Did You Have A World Hearing Day Event Last Year: Yes, but we did not submit a report
Other Suggestions:
WHO World Hearing Day has always been an excellent support and great initiative from WHO – hats off to the WHO team behind this. Really provides great support to Audiologist to promote awareness about Hearing loss, its prevention and management.
Did You Apply for Grant:Yes we applied, but were not awarded the grant
Photo 1 https://worldhearingday.org/wp-content/uploads/formidable/6/World-Hearing-Day-Newspaper-photo.jpg
Photo 1 caption Free Hearing aids provided for Elderly poor man on World Hearing Day 2022
Photo 2 https://worldhearingday.org/wp-content/uploads/formidable/6/Instagram-post-World-Hearing-Day.jpg
Photo 2 caption Instagram post of World Hearing Day Awareness
Photo 3 https://worldhearingday.org/wp-content/uploads/formidable/6/Videogaming-and-Hearing-loss.jpg
Photo 3 caption Webinar for general public to improve awareness about noise induced hearing loss from headphones use during video gaming
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