Mission’s boosted
Audiology clinic weigh in
Lanarkshire children’s charity Project Gambia: People Feeding People has been given a huge boost thanks to support from the NHS Lanarkshire audiology clinic in Hamilton.
The organisation support St John’s School for the Deaf in Serrekunda, where almost 300 children with hearing disabilities attend to learn each day.
And the team were delighted to receive three kilos of battery-operated hearing aids from the Hamilton clinic.
The huge donation was the result of a concerted effort by audiologists, nurses and doctors in NHS Lanarkshire championed by Arun Iyer – a pioneering surgeon of minimally-invasive endoscopic ear surgery and a leading member of an international working group for this procedure.
Dr Iyer has taken a keen interest in the work of Project Gambia and has been donating used hearing aids from NHS Lanarkshire for the last few years, supported by the audiology department.
The hearing aids will be distributed not only to the schoolchildren and adults in the West African nation but also in neighbouring Senegal, Liberia and Guinea Bissau.
Aid worker Frank Devine, of Project Gambia, said: “St John’s School for the Deaf Hearing Clinic is now being attended not only by the children but also by adults from Gambia and three surrounding countries.
“This mammoth donation of hearing aids will enhance our support for St John’s School for the Deaf.”