World hearing day is an annual awareness day for ensuring hearing through safe listening so noise cannot harm our ears and destroy the sense of hearing, henceforth it is our solemn duty as a citizen or an institution, to create an awareness protocol for the welfare of good hearing throughout the full course of life and to prevent hearing impairment .
WHO initiates a theme every year on March 3 regarding world hearing day, which is celebrated by all international nations and it’s partner Institutions. The WHO’S Objective behind world hearing day theme of 2022 is to, “To hear for life, listen with care”. Our institution, the Kerala academy of pharmacy has also joined the International initiative and promised a resolution to create an awareness regarding careful listening and to protect ourselves from hideous noise pollution and hearing loss .
Although, our Indian government has initiated nationwide norms regarding noise pollution and loudness nuisance, it is rarely followed by us, the general public but it must nevertheless be like that forever so henceforth we must strive our best to keep away noise that harm our hearing power as our ears are capable of receiving only adequately, measured in regards to decibels .
WHO‘s 2022’s Quick key messages:
Who has targeted audiences such as company owners, business owners, venue based managers, doctors, hospital owners, pharm and medical education centres, Public places such as bus and school terminals theatre and mall owners, decision makers in all forms of business and public and private Hall owners where people’s gather in plenty so that the message is shared across with raising awareness in social media as well under hashtags concerning the issue of hearing loss and impairment.
- Published in this forms are these commands from WHO, WHO has said that it is possible to have good hearing across the complete life course through ears and hearing care products.
- Many such common causes of hearing loss and impairment can be fully prevented, including the loss of hearing caused by exposure to loud noises and sounds.
- Safe listening can really mitigate the risk of hearing loss and hearing power drop associated with recreational audio or music hearing.
- WHO usually calls upon all governments, industry’s partners and civil societies that are to raise awareness for this imitative throughout the globe and implement all evidence-based standards that promote safe listening to all forms of sounds.
Only through such initiatives, we at – KAP are proud to announce that in our campus, we have taken all norms seriously and we shall methodically follow the rules of protecting proper hearing for all our students and faculty alike.
We have also reduced using all speakers and mics for our campus functions and actively appointment volunteers to make students stay away from loud speakers as awareness must be not only initiated , it must be religiously followed. Today, let us make our world and our town a safe noise pollution free town.
