“It is the greatest reward to see them like this,” remarked Mohan Kameswaran, managing director and chief surgeon, Madras ENT Research Foundation (MERF) as his face lit up with joy on meeting two young persons, who had received cochlear implants at MERF at a very young age, came back years later with a big news. One of them has cracked the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exam and the other has secured an admission to a medical college.
Yash Kumar, who has cleared UPSC and has been selected for the Indian Administrative Service, underwent cochlear implantation in 2002 as a three-and-a-half-year-old. A Computer Science Engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, he worked in Microsoft for one-and-a-half years and then decided to take up the civil services.
