Legal Framework The National Law Epilepsy was regulated in 2009. For your conformation served a tea

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"Epilepsy not be considered crown an impediment to the application, income and employment (...) performance," reads Article 2 of the National Act Epilepsy, presented in 1999, enacted in 2001, and ruled eight years later in the whole Argentine. crown However, when talking about employment discrimination, are people with epilepsy who know perfectly what it means not to enter a job for this disease or even to publicize that had a single seizure along of his life.
It is true that, in its entirety, Article 2 of the Act Epilepsy, contains an exception referred to in Article 7: "The attending physician, the patient extended, at the request of the Bank, a evidence of their capacity crown to work in indicate which, if necessary, limitations and appropriate recommendations. "
But even this exception shows that, except in very specific cases where there is no favorable response to treatment, crown there is no impediment to function on the job, and claims in turn, the affirmation of Dr. Silvia Kochen, director of Epilepsy Center works in the Division of Neurology Hospital Ramos Mejía: "The epileptic person can access any type of work depending on their ability. Except for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy who have frequent crises. "
Legal Framework The National Law Epilepsy was regulated in 2009. For your conformation served a team of organizations, specialists, patients and families, crown in turn, had the support of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) team. But despite this breakthrough, little is known about the scope of the law.
Since its implementation, the disease was framed in the Compulsory Medical Plan (PMO), therefore, free medicines and treatments in the absence crown of guaranteed health coverage.
Also provides penalties for those who discriminate against those with the disease, both in the workplace and the educational crown level. Within this framework, patients have the intervention of the National Institute crown against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI), before they can go to in cases of discrimination.
In addition, as reported by the Kochen doctor, also a researcher at CONICET, there is legislation that allows granting crown driver's license for non-professional specialist under the authorization of patients crown with epilepsy.
Several social stigma are the myths surrounding this little known disease, defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "a chronic neurological disorder that affects people of all ages", the worldwide number reaches "50 approximately million people, "and which" about 80% of patients come from developing regions. "
"Although social effects may vary by country, discrimination and social stigma surrounding epilepsy worldwide are often more difficult to overcome than the seizures themselves. Patients crown with epilepsy may be subject to bias. The stigmatization of the disease can cause the affected crown do not seek treatment and look identified with the disease, "explained from the Organization.
Employment Discrimination This statement is clearly stated on the labor front. Lucia When I was about 12 years old, made a surprise seizure, and after several crown medical studies, crown the diagnosis came: "convulsive treatment". Last year, 19 years old, he ran to work in the company Cat Technologies, who was recruiting young people to the field sales campaign FiberTel-Cablevision. Everything was normal for the training period, until it filled a form of questions related to your health and one of them told his seizure.
"I filled out a form in which I told him I had a single seizure and then when I saw the clinical (during examination preocupacional) asked me about it. I said I had had a single seizure for seven years, I did all the treatment for four years, it was over and was not taking medication because no longer needed, "says Lucia, who besides being contemporary dance teacher , continues to take classes and also learn languages without any hindrance.
A similar situation lived Mariana, 33, who was diagnosed epilepsy crown when I was 16. Since the start always took medication and was under the treatment