Post-Graduate Medical Institute and Ameeruddin Medical College Principal Professor Anjum Habib Vohra and Doctor Khalid Mehmood, the pioneer of DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) operation system in Pakistan, have said Parkinson is a curable disease and in the fast growing medical science in modern age, such medicines have been made available which can curb this ailment.
Their revelation came on Friday to the media on the eve of the World Parkinson Day. Both the experts said the World Parkinson Day "requires us to spread maximum awareness about this disease among masses while medical professionals must extend more and more research on this subject to find out remedy to this sickness". They said the number of patients of Parkinson in Pakistan was 400,000 while its world-wide figure had crossed 6 million and that usually old people fell prey to this disease though the young could also suffer from it. "The muscles and nerves of such a patient weaken and shake the body," they said.
Professor Vohra said a revolution had come into the medical science and now treatment and cure of this disease was possible through surgery and medicine and that encouragement of Parkinson patient was crucial with his treatment as his or her willpower could play a vital role in his or her recovery process. He said although treatment charges through DBS are low in Pakistan as compare to other countries but even then it was unaffordable for the common man here.
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