{"id":21596,"date":"2018-04-17T16:21:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T08:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21596"},"modified":"2018-04-17T18:37:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T10:37:54","slug":"world-hearing-day-sarawak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21596","title":{"rendered":"World Hearing Day Sarawak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An \u200bEar Nose Throat (ENT) &amp; Health Screening 2018 was held recently \u200bin Conjunction with World Hearing Day Sarawak<\/p>\n<p>\u200bSarawak Local Government and Housing Minister, Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian who was there to launch the occasion said many\u00a0of us are blessed and take for granted on our hearing. A few are born deaf (can\u2019t hear, hence can\u2019t speak &#8211; mute) but with advancements of technology, there is an opportunity to give these people a gift for life!<\/p>\n<p>The other end of spectrum is we are having an aging population with increased impairment of hearing<\/p>\n<p>He said these\u00a0groups need a lot of support and is \u200bproud of the tremendous volunteering leadership by Sarawak Hear for the Awareness, Rehabilitation program, fund raising, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sim also added that he is proud of the spirit of the volunteers who are proactive, believing in everyone can do something rather than being arm chair critics and finger pointing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30707766_10155451530283133_3939939565531299840_n1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21597\" alt=\"30707766_10155451530283133_3939939565531299840_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30707766_10155451530283133_3939939565531299840_n1-300x145.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30707766_10155451530283133_3939939565531299840_n1-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30707766_10155451530283133_3939939565531299840_n1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30708266_10155451530353133_1066709107110576128_n1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21598\" alt=\"30708266_10155451530353133_1066709107110576128_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30708266_10155451530353133_1066709107110576128_n1-300x145.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30708266_10155451530353133_1066709107110576128_n1-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30708266_10155451530353133_1066709107110576128_n1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30708394_10155451530408133_2152521618868404224_n1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21599\" alt=\"30708394_10155451530408133_2152521618868404224_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30708394_10155451530408133_2152521618868404224_n1-300x145.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30708394_10155451530408133_2152521618868404224_n1-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30708394_10155451530408133_2152521618868404224_n1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An \u200bEar Nose Throat (ENT) &amp; Health Screening 2018 was held recently \u200bin Conjunction with World Hearing Day Sarawak \u200bSarawak Local Government and Housing Minister, Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian who was there to launch the occasion said many\u00a0of us are blessed and take for granted on our hearing. A few are born deaf (can\u2019t hear, hence can\u2019t speak &#8211; mute) but with advancements of technology, there is an opportunity to give these people a gift for life! The other end of spectrum is we are having an aging population<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21596\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21600,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596\/revisions\/21600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}