By Tsion Terefe | Acting Director
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disease manifest as bradykinesia, rigidity, resting tremor and posture instability (motor symptoms) and depression ,speech problem and a lot others (non motor symptoms). Although, there is no cure for Parkinson disease, there are drugs that effectively control Parkinson symptoms
In developed world they have different drugs for Parkinson disease treatment. in addition there are milty disciplinary team of health professionals to help Parkinson patient (what type of drug to use and others ) to live quality life. However in Ethiopian there is no enough types of drugs to select and enough healh professionals to help. More Importantly the cost of the available drug is beyond the purchasing power of most patients. Hence poor patient do not take the recommended dose, therefore, do not effectively control their disease. However, from the fund obtained from Global funding, the beneficiaries start to live a quality of life. As the Parkinson patient life shows improvement come by taking drug as prescribed by their doctor.
As Mrs Aster a Parkinson patient and beneficri of this project said . before the I got drug support ,. I had a lot of problem but after start taking a full dose of medicine I am better. I can say my quality of life is improved
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
