By Tsion Terefe | Director
Parkinson is a degenerative and a progressive disease of a central nervous system as the disease progresses disability increases, and quality of life of Parkinson patients deteriorates. Parkinson disease has no cure but there are medicinens that can help the patients to carry their daily activities. Parkinson patients requirre constant supply of medicane.
For poor parkinson patients, in Ethiopia the cost of Parkinson drug is expensive so that, maintaining a constant supply becomes a challenges. To solve this problem Parkinson Patients Support Organization - Ethiopia provides medication support for poor PD patients those who cannot afford to buy medication. As a result of medication support patient’s quality of life improved.
Let us from Mr. Kiflye how the medication support improved his life. I lost my work because of Parkinson disease. With out work my income can not cover all my necessities including my Parkinson medicine. Especially nowadays the price of medicine is escalating, I can’t afford to purchase my PD medicine. As a result my quality of life was deteriorated. Thanks for the money obtained from GlobalGiving, I got drug support and start living better.
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