Reaching out to heal Kenya's deaf

Dr. Makaya Denge, an ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeon at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital shows Health CS Dr. Cleopa Mailu how ear operating microscope functions during the launch of Ear and Hearing Care Strategy and Guidelines at a City Hotel on August 2016. PHOTO: JECKONIA OTIENO/STANDARD]

The 2009 census put the number of people living with disability at 1,330,312 or 3.5 per cent of the country’s population. Of that number, 366,811 were deaf and 236,491 had speech disability.

The number of the deaf has since risen to 800,000, according to the Kenya National Association of the Deaf.