Rabat – Princess Lalla Asmae, King Mohammed VI’s sister, today presided over the launch of the national program of neonatal deafness screening in Casablanca.
The initiative aims to identify hearing loss in newborn babies and ensure that hearing problems are detected and treated as early as possible.
Neonatal deafness screening involves a test that is performed on newborns before they leave the hospital. If the test indicates that the baby may have hearing issues, further testing is conducted to identify the severity of the problem and determine the appropriate treatment.
As part of the launch ceremony, the princess, who is the president of the Lalla Asmae Foundation for Deaf Children, attended a presentation on the “NASMAA”, a cochlear implant program that provides treatment and rehabilitation services to hearing-impaired children.
The event included another presentation on the national program of neonatal screening. Following the presentations, Lalla Asmae chaired the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) and two conventions.
The MoU is related to the prevention and early treatment of deafness among newborns in the Casablanca-Settat region.
Meanwhile, the two conventions focused on the financial and administrative support allocated to the Lalla Asmae Foundation for deaf children, and the partial reimbursement of cochlear implant costs by health insurance, respectively.
The event took place on Wednesday at the Mother and Child Hospital Abderrahim Harouch in Casablanca.
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