In the United States, over 23 million adults aged 40 or older report a history of head injury with loss of consciousness. Head injury can be attributed to a number of causes, from motor vehicle crashes, unintentional falls, or sports injuries. What's more, head injury has been linked with a number of long-term health conditions, including disability, late-onset epilepsy, dementia, and stroke.
The SPF is a nationally defined set of basic social security guarantees which secure protection aimed at preventing or alleviating poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion, and includes access to essential healthcare and basic income security.
The academic block comprises of 5 classrooms that can accommodate about 450 students, 1 computer lab with 30 systems, a library and Administration and Research area.
According to a study on stroke epidemiology in India, the incidence of stroke in South Asian countries has increased by more than 100 per cent in the past four decades. By 2050, it is estimated that 80 per cent of the burden of new strokes will be on low- and middle-income countries. As a result of the epidemiological transition sweeping through India, stroke prevalence is all set to rise in the coming years.
"Our core is 0-15 years mental age and we do around 30,000 sessions per month on these kinds of therapies, intervention or counselling as so on," Nitin Bindlish, founder and CEO of Mom's Belief, said during an interaction.
A stroke occurs when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures and bleeds, hampering the blood supply to the brain. There is a huge burden of stroke, in addition to causing the highest morbidity and mortality rates in the patients.
In a virtual interaction with labourers from across the state on Saturday, the CM said that in the midst of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the government was going to restart distribution of free ration under the PM Garib Kalyan Yojana from May 5.
The draft National List of Essential Assistive Products (NLEAP) prepared by the ICMR and put out for public comments is riddled with mistakes, which according to sector experts was because the drafting committee did not include a single person with disability or persons from the disability sector.
NCPEDP is the country’s premier cross-disability, not-for-profit organisation working as an interface between Government, Industry, International Agencies and the Voluntary Sector towards empowerment of persons with disabilities.
Tranexamic acid (TXA), a drug that prevents bleeding into the brain by inhibiting blood clot breakdown, has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives.
While insurance companies insist on referring all claims to medical boards to delay payouts, the boards that are supposed to assess the percentage of disability suffered by an accident victim within a timeframe, delay their reports for more than a year, thereby delaying relief to the victim in need.
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