.KIMS Image, Visakhapatnanm consultant neurologist Ch. Vijay said that based on the 2018 research study, over seven crore people around the globe deal with epilepsy, with 1.2 crore instances in India alone which embodies a considerable part of the worldwide epilepsy burden. In India, epilepsy is actually particularly prevalent among children grown old 8– 12 years, with a five-year prevalence rate of 22.2 per 1,000 youngsters, he added in the release to denote National Epilepsy Day 2024 to be commemorated on Nov 17.
Understanding with National Epilepsy Day festivity is the some of the options to encourage very early medical diagnosis and punctual therapy, which will inevitably lower the concern of epilepsy on individuals as well as society, he included. Published – Nov 16, 2024 06:07 pm IST.