- Command Hospital, Pune has carried out successful piezoelectric bone conduction hearing implants.
- Command Hospital, Pune has become the first government hospital across the country to procure and conduct such implants.
- Two piezoelectric Bone Conduction Hearing Implants have been conducted by the Department of Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) at Command Hospital (Southern Command).
- The implants have been conducted in a 7-year old male child suffering from congenital external and middle ear anomalies and one adult with Single Sided Deafness.
- Patients with hearing impairments can have an implanted medical electronic device called an active piezoelectric bone conduction hearing implant system.
- Its reach has always been constrained by the equipment’s high cost.
- The Command Hospital (SC), Pune, has been named the greatest hospital in the entire Armed Force Medical Services (AFMS) and has been awarded the renowned “Raksha Mantri” trophy.
- The ENT division of Southern Command’s Command Hospital has been accredited as an AFMS Neurotology Centre.
