The Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program?(VIHSP) has reached a significant milestone, celebrating its 20th anniversary and screening more than 1.3 million babies. The program launched in February 2005 with the goal of screening newborns in hospitals across the state in their first days of life. Dr Melinda Barker, VIHSP director, told?HPA?the program had detected permanent #HearingLoss in more than 3,000 babies. Larissa Ralph Bree Fusinato Sally Higgins The Royal Children's Hospital
