World Epilepsy Day awareness walk in Lahore

PINS director says epilepsy is curable if diagnosed on time

LAHORE: Epilepsy patients have been advised to prioritise regular treatment, said Punjab Institute of Neurosciences (PINS) Executive Director Dr Khalid Mahmood.

He stated this during an awareness walk on World Epilepsy Day.

Speaking on the occasion, he said that modern research on the disease had emerged by which the treatment of epilepsy had become quite easy.

The executive director added that epilepsy was curable and it was possible to recover but it is important that the patient is diagnosed on time.

Patients should prefer a therapeutic treatment so that steps could be taken to build a healthy society, he further said.

“Media, civil society, scholars and social organisations should play their role to educate the citizens about different steps of the disease of epilepsy,” PINS Executive Director Dr Khalid Mahmood said.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 11^th, 2020.