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With only ten members, but with great enthusiasm begins to move the Association of epilepsy Mediterranean AEPIM whose purpose is to promote and improve health conditions of patients with epilepsy.
The President of the association, Araceli Serrano, said that "in the Region of Murcia there are 15,000 people with epilepsy, while in Spain the figure reached 400,000", while arguing that "we must learn to live with this disease, it is not a mental disorder. "
Therefore, according to Serrano AEPIM main objective is "to help the victims themselves accept their illness, while other objectives will be to assist patients and family counseling to improve the quality of lives of victims and of course , "work very hard to help the sick."
M ª Carmen Ruiz, Councillor for NGO's in the City of Lorca, said that "it is a requirement for the Consistory to work with projects like this in AEPIM, which has a very positive purpose."
Antonia Lopez, mayor of Health, pointed out on his part that "this is a project with tremendous public health concern and therefore need support and help, because with the enthusiasm and effort that members of this new partnership are sure to go very well. "
Araceli Serrano finished saying that, once installed the seat, which is located on Martin Street Morata de Lorca, and the association's Web page about to see the light, the next steps will be contacting schools institutes "to be informed about the disease and not be afraid", and a conference to be held on 24 October in the Aula Selgas, and a charity dinner will take place in November.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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