Lilongwe, Mzuzu
March 2014 Malawi
Malaria and meningitis are common in Malawi, and both diseases, and their required life-saving treatment, can often result in hearing loss. Many of the older patients had lost their hearing this way, including a husband and wife who had been unable to communicate fully with each other for more than 20 years. The 72-year-old husband had developed hearing loss after a bad bout of malaria and had spent years struggling to hear his family, which over the years had grown from children to grandchildren. Once he was fit, the entire family began dancing and hugging, overjoyed to have their patriarch back.
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