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As galore arsenic 13,000 patients from crossed the State were screened and 7,000 person truthful acold been treated and provided follow-up attraction astatine the Government Wenlock Hospital’s Brain Health Centre successful Mangaluru since its commencement successful December 2023, said Hospital Superintendent D.S. Shivaprakash successful a property release.
The session was associated inaugural of Department of Health and Family Welfare and NIMHANS. It was functioning nether the programme Karnataka Brain Health Initiative. Dr. Shivaprakash said the session followed an integrated exemplary of aboriginal screening, punctual diagnosis, and timely attraction for neurological conditions.
Dvithi Vinay Sorake, Medical Officer of the Clinic, said the session chiefly focused connected 4 large neurological disorders successful the assemblage - Epilepsy, Headache, Stroke, and Dementia. Patients with neurological information namely Parkinson and Neuropathy were being treated by a multidisciplinary squad consisting of neurologists, nurses, physiotherapists, code therapists, psychologists, and territory coordinators.
To make consciousness astir encephalon wellness astatine the grassroots level, Dr. Sorake said astir 1,500 wellness personnel, including aesculapian officers, assemblage wellness officers, and ASHAs, were being trained successful aboriginal detection, treatment, and attraction of neurological disorders. Several consciousness and outreach programmes person besides being held for wide nationalist and students, she said.
