By Tsion Terefe | Director
Parkinson’s disease /PD/ is a progressive neurological disease that mainly affects movement. Parkinson patients suffering difficulty getting on/off toilet not only patients suffered by this challenge family members also affected because if patients fall increase caregiver burden as well.
In Ethiopia many patients cannot fulfill their need regarding to sanitation facility because of low economic status of Parkinson patients even they cannot cover their medical cost because of this many patients living with inadequate sanitation facilities. To solve this problem Parkinson patient support organization Ethiopia with the financial support from GlobalGiving is implementing modern toilet. Using this kind of toilet caregiver challenge reduce and enhances quality life of patients, this make caregivers and patients happy.
One of the project beneficiaries Halimariam said that “previously at the time of using toilet I found support from my families because unable to stand by myself and my caregiver support me this make me unhappy because I always feeling burden to my caregivers and also my caregivers suffered a lot day and night but after constructed toilet I can use toilet by myself and my caregiver burden reduced this make me and my caregiver happy”
See attached pictures before and after construction
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