By Tsion Terefe | Director
With the fund obtained from GlobalGiving Parkinson Patients Support Organization - Ethiopia (PPSO-E) helped poor Parkinson Patients to get medicine to treat their disease. Parkinson disease is a progressive and degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Parkinson disease currently has no cure, but there are medicines that control different Parkinson symptoms common drugs of PD are Levedopa and carbidopa. This is the main drug used in Ethiopia. This drug is controlling the symptoms of Parkinson symptoms. Although the drug is available in Ethiopia because of shortage of money poor Parkinson patient can not purchased the needed amount of drug. Patients either using below dosage or interruption of using medicine until they got money. Interruption of medicine can cause patients to experience worsening of symptoms such as tremors , rigidity loss of balance, confession, difficult to communicate etc. By helping patients to have drug , PPSO-E secure the quality of life of the poor Parkinson patients; below is the testimony one of our drug benefices. Ato wonderad I am a Parkinson patient for 4 years and using a Parkinson medicine. But because of money problem , I didn’t use according to prescription. I always complained on the effectiveness of the medicine. After PPSO- E help me I started to take the medicine according to the advice of the Doctor’s prescription my health improved and my life improved as well.
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