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10/24/2016  |   1:45 PM - 2:45 PM   |  BGPOP Building 402/403/404

UNHS: Philippines Experience

The Philippines is one of the few countries that made an intrepid decision in the early detection in its newborn population, thus allowing immediate intervention. This universal newborn hearing screening in the Philippines evolved during the past 18 years from a few participating hospitals to legislation known as “Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention Act of 2009”. The government ensures implementation of this act through the National Institute of Health, Newborn Hearing Screening Reference Center, the Philippine Society of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, and the Philippine Health Insurance Company. This implementation has resulted in Newborn Hearing Screening Registry, Certifying courses for newborn hearing screening personnel, and online registry, presently involving 128 certified hearing centers. Since 2007, newborns were screened from those who qualified for the high risk criteria, evolving to a universally available program. In 2014 and 2015 over 100,000 newborns were screened from 16 regions all over the country. The presentation discusses the exact data and its importance in incidence and prevalence in correlation to gender, socio-economic status and the high risk criteria. Screening has enabled early intervention for newborns who had been found with hearing loss; intervention included hearing aid fitting, cochlear implant, and rehabilitation. Several challenges are still to be overcome to enable full implementation of the “Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention Act of 2009”. Reporting of newborns screened for a unified national census and funding for such an advocacy remains the biggest challenge.

• To be able to report the census, prevalence and incidence of hearing loss in newborns in the Philippines
• To be able to correlate possible gender, socio-economic status and high risk criteria to the incidence and prevalence of hearing loss in newborns.
• To be able to discuss the difficulties that the program is experiencing

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Mary Aimee O. So - Singson (Primary Presenter,Author), Philippine Society of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, aimeesomd@yahoo.com;
I am 39 years old born 05April, 1977 in Manila. I am Married to Dr. Gerald D. Singson who is an ORL-HNS. I had my B. S. Medical Technology, from the University of Santo Tomas. I had my Doctor of Medicine at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. I had my Internship, Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center I had my Otorhinolaryngology Residency Training at Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center, and was Chief of Resident, 2008 I am a Diplomate, Philippine Board of Otorhinolarygology – Head and Neck Surgery and a Fellow of the Philippine Society of Otolaryngology –Head and Neck Surgery