(FIT is re-publishing this piece for World Parkinson’s Disease Day, which is observed every year on April 11 to spread awareness about this condition.)
A video produced by Nanavati Hospital, a leading hospital in Mumbai, began doing the rounds of social media and specifically among the Parkinson’s community in the last couple of months.
The video has Dr Ali Irani, the head of Physiotherapy department in Nanavati, talking about Parkinson’s disease and how it impacts the movement of patients. It then talks about Nanavati Hospital’s collaboration with King’s College, London and bringing to India an injectable drug that can dramatically reverse a Parkinson’s patient’s movements.
It further shows a patient who has had the disease for over 16 years. He has considerable movement disorder associated with the neuro-degenerative disease. Minutes after getting the shot of this new drug he begins to not just walk normally but also do pushups.