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- Members of the National Association of People with Epilepsy (ANPE) contacted last week with the Citizens' Group to request the promotion of this symbolic action since the request had been rejected for "not having been made sufficiently in advance."

- "There is a lot of work to be done to promote and promote Epilepsy research, and our City Council can do a lot in this direction: organize awareness campaigns with the objective of eradicating their stigmas and social isolation, measures to improve living conditions The sick and their family environment, and to control that the labor insertion of these people takes place in a dignified and non-discriminatory conditions of justice, from our Municipal Group we will work in this direction, "warned Citizen spokesman Manuel Padín .

The municipal government rectifies and has published on the municipal website that will illuminate orange facade of the Palace Hall on May 24 to mark the National Day of Epilepsy.

The Municipal Group of Citizens in Cartagena demanded a few days ago the City Council to illuminate its façade of orange, the color associated with this disease, in order to make it known and sensitize the public.

Some members of the National Association of People with Epilepsy (ANPE) contacted the Citizens' Group to ask for the impulse of this symbolic action since the request had been rejected for "not having been made sufficiently in advance".

The Citizens' spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, said that the City Council had rectified it in time, "when we learned of the refusal, we sent a letter addressed to the Mayor's Office, and issued a press statement objecting to this decision; Protocol issues will stop doing something that serves to become aware of a neurological disease that unfortunately is very frequent but with a diagnosis in time and an appropriate treatment allows a normal life to live many people who suffer.

Now the institutional support of the City of Cartagena will join the Congress of Deputies, the Assembly of Madrid, the City of Madrid, Gijón or Murcia, among others, to make this disease visible;

"There is a lot of work to be done to promote and promote Epilepsy research, and our City Council can do a lot in this direction: to organize awareness campaigns with the objective of eradicating their stigmas and social isolation, measures to improve the living conditions of the Epilepsy. Sick and their family environment, and to control that the labor insertion of these people is produced in a dignified and non-discriminatory conditions of justice, from our Municipal Group we will work in this direction, "warned the Citizens spokesman.

"There are many people who live epilepsy with a certain naturalness thanks to medication, and can make a life almost normal, but there are many patients who can not control it and suffer a severe physical, psychological, neurological, and are limited ability to Understanding, we want to collaborate through these symbolic acts to make visible this disease of which so much is unknown and that still has so many stigmas ", explained Manuel Padín.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena