The medical teams at Rambam and the girls of the JUST DANCE studio in Haifa - in a purple mob flash
International Epilepsy Awareness Day, which fell on Saturday 26/3/22, was marked today 27.3.22/XNUMX/XNUMX at the Rambam Medical College in Haifa.
International Epilepsy Awareness Day is identified with the color purple and so it was all painted purple at the special event.
dancing
In the entrance plaza of the Rambam Hospital, which today was painted with a purple spirit and atmosphere - purple balloons, flowers and purple shirts, it was decided to celebrate the event with a pop-up flash mob of the Rambam medical teams together with the girls of the just dance studio - under the direction of Gefen Slobotsky.
Dancing and happy for Epilepsy Awareness Day - the medical teams and the studio girls • Watch
All in purple
About 80 female dancers in purple shirts, together with the teams from Rambam, also in purple shirts, burst into an impressive dance - all together in purple - for the important cause!
Aviva, training and outreach coordinator at the Epilepsy Center at Rambam Hospital and the initiator of the event:
It was an exciting and important day. We wanted to convey the message: knowledge = power, the more we know, the better we will know how to deal with it.
Aviva points out that today one out of 100 children suffers from epilepsy and adults it is one out of 150. "It affects everywhere, she says, "without gender differences and it is very important to convey the message to the entire population and especially to children and students - it is important to know how to accept the other and the different.
The Rambam Epilepsy Center
The Epilepsy Center at Rambam was established in 2016, under the Department of Neurology, under the management of Prof. Moni Benifala and Prof. Yitzhak Shiler, and provides a response to epilepsy patients. The center operates from a social perspective of the patient and providing a response in the community.
The girls of the studio in Rambam Square - raising awareness of epilepsy • Watch
Eradicate the stigma
In addition, our member of the Ministry of Education and the district manager Dr. Sa'ar Harel, gave his blessing to eradicate stigmas in society by providing training to education teams, supervisors, managers, teachers, factions, students, soldiers, associations and workplaces. The trainings are age-appropriate and free of charge. In the trainings, the teams receive tools and explanations on how to deal with the disease, across all sections of the population in Israel.
Gefen Slobotsky, owner of Just dance studio:
The girls and I feel that we played an important part in marking Epilepsy Awareness Day. It was an exciting day and the medical teams who joined the music and dancing completed the atmosphere.
great excitement
Slovotskי adds: "The girls of the studio were very excited, when at the end of the event they passed by the hospital wards and handed out flowers (purple of course) and an informational flyer is translated into 4 languages: Hebrew, Arabic, Russian and Amharic. The goal is to reach everyone and respond to the entire population, regardless of gender or sector."
purple week
Today's event at Rambam was a concluding event from a week of activity and awareness for epilepsy, which began on Saturday at the Maccabi Haifa football game, in collaboration with the team's CEO who saw the importance of raising awareness - the team's players wore purple ribbons.
On Tuesday, the Koftan Halabi school under the management of Rabbi Iman Khalifa - in Dalit Al Carmel - 700 students and staff members wore purple shirts.
The head of the council, Mr. Rafik Halavi, opened the morning with an impressive ceremony - at the end of which the trainings at the school were given and simultaneously translated into Arabic.
Great tribute.
Now let them really grow up and take care of patients in neurology, let them build a department that respects the comfort of those hospitalized in the neurology department. The ward looks like a depressing garbage can, always a mess there, buckets of water and cleaners in the narrow passage really unpleasant, and for neurology patients the good feeling that affects their health is important. They should also make sure there are free beds for lumbar acupuncture tests because patients who are waiting for this important test for so long that every day is important for a quick diagnosis to start treatment, and this is not happening. Not suitable these days neither for such a stupid ward nor for waiting for a bed for this test.