.KIMS Icon, Visakhapatnanm consultant neurologist Ch. Vijay pointed out that based on the 2018 research study, over 7 crore folks globally have to deal with epilepsy, along with 1.2 crore instances in India alone which represents a significant part of the global epilepsy burden. In India, epilepsy is actually specifically prevalent among youngsters grown old 8– 12 years, with a five-year frequency cost of 22.2 every 1,000 children, he included the release to denote National Epilepsy Day 2024 to be celebrated on Nov 17.
Recognition via National Epilepsy Day festivity is actually the some of the options to encourage very early prognosis as well as timely procedure, which will ultimately lower the worry of epilepsy on individuals and also society, he added. Published – November 16, 2024 06:07 pm IST.