Children learn about earcare in Baotou, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on March 3, 2017. [Photo/Baotou Daily] BEIJING -- Chinese experts have called for improved awareness of hearing impairment and increasing the use of hearing aids as the country has about 100 million people with hearing disabilities. Long Mo, deputy director of the China Rehabilitation Research Center for Hearing and Speech Impairment, said only 7.9 percent of Chinese who suffer from medium-level or worse hearing impairments use hearing aids or artificial cochleas. Gao Zhiqiang, director of the Department of Otolaryngology with the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, said people also tend to make mistakes in wearing hearing aids, causing further deterioration of their hearing abilities. Patients with hearing loss in both ears are recommended to wear hearing aids on both sides, Gao said. But only 15 percent of those wearing hearing aids go through fitting for both of their ears. Wang Shuo, a researcher at the Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, said hearing aids with Chinese language processors can help improve the equipment's recognition of speech and therefore better suit users whose mother tongue is Chinese. custom printed wristbands for eventsimages of rubber band braceletscustom rubber braceletspaw print silicone braceletsdebossed rubber wristbands
HONG KONG -- Over 400 people got vaccinated against measles Monday at vaccination stations set up at the Hong Kong International Airport to prevent the spread of measles infection, according to Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP).From Jan 1 to March 24, 2019, 20 measles cases have been registered in Hong Kong, a spokesperson of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government's Health Department told Xinhua on Monday.This number is higher than the annual totals of the past few years.Out of the 20 cases, at least nine have been categorized as imported cases and several recent cases concern people working at the Hong Kong International Airport.The CHP held a health talk on Friday at the airport to deliver measles-related health advice, and set up a vaccination station on Saturday at the airport to provide measles vaccination to non-immune people working there."This mop-up measles vaccination exercise aims to protect those non-immune to measles. For those who was born before 1967 in Hong Kong, it is expected that they have contracted measles in the past and thus have antibodies against measles. Separately, those who have received two doses of measles-containing vaccine will also be protected against measles," a CHP spokesman explained.The vaccination services were enhanced on Monday. According to the CHP, another vaccination station has been set up at the airport, and on Monday alone 484 people received measles vaccination at the stations.
