Yes, hearing impairment is associated with superstitions in… - Bolajoko Olubukunola Olusanya

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Yes, hearing impairment is associated with superstitions in many communities, which feed into both. However, the major reason for the issue’s neglect and, so to speak, ‘invisibility’ is the fact that it is not associated with significant mortality.

Bolajoko Olubukunola Olusanya

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Bolajoko Olubukunola Olusanya a Nigerian pediatric surgeon, delegate from Nigeria to the World Federation of Associations of Paediatric Surgeons and one of the two Nigerian surgeons who first successfully separated conjoined twins in Nigeria at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu in 1988.

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