“Healthy Environment”: Svetlana Nurmukhametova on World Epilepsy Day
Around the world, March 26 is celebrated as “Purple Day” — “Epilepsy Awareness Day”

Today, on March 27, another episode of Elena Sergunina’s multimedia project “Healthy Environment” was aired on the “Russia 24. Bashkortostan” TV channel.
Around the world, March 26 is celebrated as “Purple Day” — “Epilepsy Awareness Day.” This event was created in 2008 by a girl from Canada, Cassidy Megan, to draw public attention to this serious neurological condition.
More about epilepsy was explained by the expert of our program — PhD neurologist, epileptologist, assistant professor of the Department of Neurology at BSMU, neurologist epileptologist at V.S. Buzaev International Medical Centre®, Svetlana Nurmukhametova.
Dr. Nurmukhametova debunked some myths about epilepsy.
