27/3/2017
Under the
patronage of the president Prof Dr Maged el Kemary, the Faculty of Medicine
organizes yesterday Sunday 26/3/2017 an educational program about epilepsy, its
symptoms and treatment.
As well,
Prof Dr Hasan el Batti mentions that epilepsy is one of chronic neurological
disorders that afflicts community members of different ages as there are about
50 million people with epilepsy around the world and 70% of sufferers with
epilepsy around the world; 90 % of whom infected with sufferers live in
developing regions and they responds treatment, but it is still not available
for about three-quarters of those infected.
The seminar
spoke about the common forms of the disease which affects six patient pen out
of ten patients “Idiopathic epilepsy”
The
pathological form resulted from reason called “secondary epilepsy” or epilepsy
resulting from brain injury due to loss of oxygen or brain infection such as meningitis
or brain tumor.