Tribune News Service
Faridkot, December 8
As students with convulsive disorder (epilepsy) from low-income families suffer from stigma and discrimination in absence of proper treatment due to lack of knowledge, the state School Education Department and Guru Gobind Singh Government Medical College and Hospital in Faridkot have started a special programme to educate teachers in government schools to understand the genetics of epilepsy and dispel myths about it.
Saying proper education and appropriate healthcare services can make tremendous change in the life of an epileptic patient, doctors at the programme organised at the medical college on Sunday said many people with active epilepsy don’t receive appropriate treatment for their condition, leading to a large treatment gap. The programme was attended
by 250 principals and teachers of government schools of the area.
Teachers roped in to dispel myths on epilepsy
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