‘It’s an honour and a dream come true for me to be selected as the first exchange ENT Surgeon to visit Yale,’ said Yakobi, who is employed as an ENT specialist at Greys Hospital in Pietermaritzburg.

‘We should advocate for quality and modernised education for the deaf, education that will integrate the deaf and blind with society. Blind and deaf people should be provided with education that will provide them better chances of employment and enable them to contribute to the economy of this country,’ said Justice Zack Yacoob, President of the Blind and Deaf Society of KZN.