Brett Lee endorses mandatory hearing loss screening for newborns

Brett Lee

Nearly sixty per cent cases of hearing loss in children are preventable with early intervention, says former Australian cricket sensation Brett Lee, emphasising the need to make the "new-born screen test" mandatory in India.

"Early intervention is the most important thing for a kid to have back normal hearing. There is an urgent need of making the 'new-born screen test' for hearing mandatory as well as for educating parents of children with hearing loss so that they make the best intervention at the earliest," Lee said yesterday.

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