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Epilepsy in Ghana: Let’s collaborate, crusade and fight it till the end

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“Before I got married to my wife 11 years ago, I've heard people telling me all kinds of nasty things. Not to talk about the discouragement I even got from my church leaders. But I said to myself, since I'm even called Thomas, I'll try and play the doubting Thomas in the Bible just to doubt the things they were saying. So I challenged myself I’m going to be the different one among all the Thomas’s at least to prove to the world that persons with epilepsy deserve the right to be happy and to be cared for and that’s why I’m living with this challenge. I thank God we’ve been very successful to be able to go out and talk to a lot of people about this condition", Thomas Larbie, an advocate for epilepsy revealed. “I’ve realized that the condition is not the problem but the behavior of people surrounding the condition. It is the people around us that make the condition a problem. I remembered in my school days growing up as a child and what happened was, we dread