title: Some reflections on distribution of centres for cochlear implants.
abstract: Belgian has about 10 million inhabitants. Flanders has five and a half million inhabitants and five "CI-implant centre". As the ENT-community is not able to find sensible solutions to regulate this absurdity of one CI-centre per one million inhabitants (in Antwerp even one per 150,000 inhabitants) some legal activity should be provided by the government.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Feenstra
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D019929:Cochlear Implantation; D003638:Deafness / Q000601:surgery*; D006296:Health Services / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006801:Humans