By Tensae Deneke | Project Coordinator
When a person is infected by PD, he or she is forced to resign from work. The disease gets worse as time passes, and patients can’t work as fast as they used to do. As a result, patients will be forced to stop work or would get fired. Such sudden loss of work would make them economically dependent. Besides, their care givers might also be expected to quit work and take care of the PD patient. This double burden makes the patients and their families poorer and unable to afford basic necessities, including PD’s drug. Mamo, who is one of these patient’s cohort is economically poor, and can’t afford all the required daily dosage of drug. This man got few drug donation from the Parkinson patients support organization- Ethiopia, and get few months relief from anxiety due to inability to afford drug.
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