World Multiple Sclerosis Day 2016- ‘Independence’
Author - Amrita Surendranath
Article Reviewed by The Medindia Medical Review Team on May 24, 2016
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World Multiple Sclerosis Day 2016- ‘Independence’
World MS Day 2016 is celebrated to raise awareness about multiple sclerosis (MS) which affects the quality of life without necessarily affecting the life span of the affected individual.World Multiple Sclerosis Day 2014
World Multiple Sclerosis Day is a movement initiated by the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF) and encourages its society members, individuals or groups to work together to raise awareness about Multiple Sclerosis (MS), the neurological disease that affects young adults.Multiple Sclerosis
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Multiple Sclerosis, the ‘young people’s disease’ was known in India until some decades ago, as yet another ‘Western disease’ and was believed to occur only in cold climates. An evening’s interaction with a Multiple Sclerosis care facility in the US, prompted A.H. Tobaccowala, former Chairman of Voltas Ltd, to begin a Support Group for Multiple Sclerosis in India in 1985 along with dynamic social worker Rehmat Fazalbhoy who was herself partially blind.Advertisement
