Nalini, who has one of Dr. Rao's voice boxes, also helps other throat cancer patients.
Dr. Vishal Rao has changed the life of throat cancer in India.
It has been found that approximately 30,000 patients per year (larynx) have cancer (larynx) per day across the country, and the voices of the patients leave them, as the removal of the vocal cords (those of the vocal cords) in the last phase of the disease.
The price of prosthetic voice boxes is $ 1,000. "In general, most of our health care services are privately and expensive, so I realized the importance of helping these patients to speak again because talk is not a right or privilege," says Dr. Rao. She is a cancer surgeon at the Health Care Globally Center in Bangalore.
Feeling useless
He could not speak because his voice was removed by the cancer caused by Narayan Swamy. It had a big impact on his life.
"I was the union leader in the company I worked for and helped other workers, and I was not worthless," he says.
"Loss of losing is to lose my life, I can not do anything I want, and I wanted to kill myself."
When asked by a friend to talk to patients like Swami, he started to think that if he could help him, a friend asked him why he should not form a low voice voice device (to speak). Dr. Rao was involved in research and development work with industrial engineer Shashank Mahes.
After two years of effort, they found a tool called 'Amgural Wall'. It is a small dollar with a cylinder measuring approximately one centimeters inserted into the throat of the patients who have a voice outpost.
It has given a new life to patients like Nalini Satyanarayana.
He is currently able to talk and can talk directly with other patients who have throat surgery.
"I've returned to the old stage, and I'm a good positive example of life after cancer," she says.
"By throat cancer, and those in its fourth stage, they have to lose their vocal cords because the voice is completely eradicated," explains Dr. Rao.
"Now such patients can connect the respiratory tube with the food tube and talk if they can mimic the respiratory tract from the lungs." If the brain is trained to produce movements again in the environments, the patients can speak again. "
Those who worked on the 'Voice Box' program provided their time and expertise for free. Therefore, it can sell at a lower price.
The wish to create a social change enabled the group. Dr. Rao says that it has provided healthcare facilities to patients at lower prices.
The device is inserted into the patient's throat
This device is also made in India; Most other artificial vocal cords are expensive because they are imported.
Dr Alok Thacker, head and neck surgery specialist from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, believes that the voice of the patient will change the lives of the patients. "This is a simple device, the single trooper that helps the lone people to come back to work and face life economicallyThis is what he says.
However, he warns Dr. Rao and his team to challenge their counterfeit boxes.
A similar project, unable to produce sufficiently enough, could not have a wider impact, he said.
Dr Rao is working to make his discovery available at regional cancer health centers in India. Therefore, throat cancers can buy this device without worrying about the cost.
"This is a simple innovation that has helped many lives in a very simple way."
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