.KIMS Icon, Visakhapatnanm specialist neurologist Ch. Vijay mentioned that based on the 2018 study, over 7 crore folks around the world struggle with epilepsy, with 1.2 crore situations in India alone which represents a significant portion of the international epilepsy trouble. In India, epilepsy is particularly rampant amongst little ones grown older 8– 12 years, with a five-year occurrence cost of 22.2 every 1,000 youngsters, he included the launch to denote National Epilepsy Time 2024 to be celebrated on November 17.
Awareness by means of National Epilepsy Time celebration is actually the among the options to encourage very early diagnosis and also prompt therapy, which will inevitably lessen the trouble of epilepsy on people and culture, he incorporated. Published – Nov 16, 2024 06:07 pm IST.