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A baby has become the youngest in the UK to have cochlear implants - at the age of three months and three days.
Evie Smith had the first device implanted in her right ear, and then the second one seven weeks later.
Evie is now aged six months - and returned to St Thomas' NHS Hospital in London last week to have the devices activated.
Staff there have emphasised her case is exceptional.
Evie became profoundly deaf after contracting pneumococcal meningitis when she was just three days old.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26894812
Evie Smith had the first device implanted in her right ear, and then the second one seven weeks later.
Evie is now aged six months - and returned to St Thomas' NHS Hospital in London last week to have the devices activated.
Staff there have emphasised her case is exceptional.
Evie became profoundly deaf after contracting pneumococcal meningitis when she was just three days old.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26894812