Global Health Fellow, Catherine de Cates, Isobel Fitzgerald O’Connor and Tamsin Holland Brown, recently visited Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and the deaf school in Blantyre, Malawi in the first stage of a project supporting children with glue ear & serous otitis media. Of all deaf children across the world fewer than 10% wear a hearing aid of any kind. Research in Cambridge has searched for an affordable solution for the most common type of hearing loss in childhood affecting the middle ear: glue ear. The project will trial the use of affordable bone conduction headsets in a low-income setting.
This visit was supported by our grant scheme open to NHS staff Our Process – Cambridge Global Health Partnerships and the East of England Global Health Fellowship Scheme
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