World Centre for Partial Deafness Treatment

A World Centre for Partial Deafness Treatment is to bel set up in Kajetany near Warsaw. Its first part is to be ready by mid 2011.

The founder of the Centre is Professor Henryk Skarżyński, director of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Warsaw and chairman of the Iternational Center of Hearing and Speech in Warsaw which performs the largest number of operations to improve hearing in the world. Together with his team he has worked out and introduced many pioneering inventions, research programs, therapeutic and rehabilitation procedures, that are used around the world. His works contributed to the fast development of otolaryngology, audiology and phoniatrics in Poland.

In 1992 Prof. Skarżyński performed the first cochlear implant operation in Poland on a totally deaf patient. This started a whole new programme of healing deafness with the use of cochlear implants.

In 1998 Prof. Skarżyński was the first in Poland to heal deafness by using implants into the cerebral. That very year he initiated a programme that served to quickly discover damaged hearing of newborn and babies, a year later he initiated an original way of examining hearing, speech and eyesight - internet examinations.

The new Center is to conduct projects on a new system for middle ear implants and internal research on gene therapy of deafness, tinnitus therapy and regeneration of the damaged inner ear. There are plans to start a pilot program of hearing tests of children in Europe. (PAIIZ/RK)

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• ● In December 2009 and January 2010, as in previous months in the second half of 2009, the Polish economy stood out against other countries in terms of GDP growth. Poland’s economic growth was higher than projected and higher than in other European countries.
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• In 2009 construction output increased by 3.7%.
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• Retail sales increase in most product groups.
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• On the Warsaw Stock Exchange, stock prices were very volatile in January 2010.
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• At the end of December 2009 the registered unemployment rate (claimant count rate) amounted to 11.9% versus 11.4% in November.
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• At the end of January the president signed the 2010 budget bill into law. The bill was adopted by the parliament on December 18.
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• In the fourth quarter of 2009 the Polish economy turned out to be more resistant to the global crisis than had been projected and than the economies of Polish neighbours, something which boosts optimism in forecasts for 2010 and the next years.
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