On December 18 is celebrated the day national of the sclerosis multiple.
-in Spain, about 46,000 people with this disease chronic neurodegenerative
-Is the leading cause of non-traumatic disability among young people in Spain
-the streamlining of the diagnostic and therapeutic processes as well as the implementation of special units within each hospital, improve their quality of life
Madrid, December of 2011- La Asociación Española de Esclerosis Múltiple (AEDEM-COCEMFE) celebrates the national day of sclerosis Multiple on Sunday 18 December, highlighting the situation of those affected by this chronic neurodegenerative disease.
The services of rehabilitation, psychological care, family support and other therapies, promptly covered by the national health system, are essential to the personal and social evolution process of those affected by this disease. The diagnosis usually occur when you are young adult and the individual is in full development of their work and personal life. Why are essential support policies for the social and labour integration of people with multiple sclerosis.
Gerardo GarcÃa Perales, President of the Spanish Association of multiple sclerosis, shows concern about the situation of crisis that we are going through some cuts in health and social services may jeopardize the projects that are carried out with the people affected by multiple sclerosis from associations, which are directly related to their quality of life and its development in the field work and family ”.
Multiple sclerosis is a demyelinating disease, neurodegenerative and Chronicle of the central nervous system. The immune system destroys the myelin, the protective layer that surrounds the fibers of the Central nervous system, causing damage that interferes with the transmission of the message between the brain and various parts of the body.
The Spanish Association of multiple sclerosis is a non-profit, which brings together people affected by multiple sclerosis, their families and persons sensitized to the problems of this complex pathology. Likewise, with the collaboration of health professionals from different disciplines related to the disease. Its scope is State and her dependent associations affiliated of the majority of the autonomous communities.
AEDEM-COCEMFE has an Honor Committee, consisting of outstanding Spanish personalities and whose Presidency holds the Infanta Doña Elena de Borbón. It is member of the law of the International Federation of associations of multiple sclerosis (MSIF) and Member at the same time the European platform of multiple sclerosis (PMSCS).
