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Three of the four children who were provided with cochlear implant at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Thursday. “The cochlear implant programme was started by ENT Department of CMCH in 2013. Children, who found fit to undergo the procedure by the ENT team of CMCH, would be sent to Chennai to get approval from Cochlear Implant Committee. Ali Sulthan, head of the ENT Department, said that the four children had undergone the implant of internal device in December. “The external device is fixed and synchronised with the internal device after the incision made for the implant is completely cured..