KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 (Bernama) — 20 year-old university student Lavinia proudly embraces her trophy and says “Finally I can fulfil my dream”. Detected with hearing loss at the age of 4, and now using the Cochlear Implants, Lavinia is one of the winners of the MED-EL Academic Excellence Award 2021.
In Malaysia, 3.8 per 1,000 new-borns have some kinds of hearing loss, if they do not get medical help in time, the door to verbal communication remains closed.