From Pretoria to the world: How hearX’s De Wet Swanepoel took hearing care global

From Pretoria to the world: How hearX’s De Wet Swanepoel took hearing care global

With one in five people in the world suffering from hearing loss, hearing care remains one of the least accessible areas of healthcare globally. A South African innovation led by University of Pretoria professor De Wet Swanepoel has helped to change that reality, using smartphones to take hearing screening, diagnostics and even treatment out of clinics and into communities. In an interview with BizNews, Prof Swanepoel explains how hearX, a compa…