Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (SM/NR)

Udupi, Jun 28: Kasturba Hospital at Manipal is promoting World Brain Tumour Week under the theme ‘Healthy minds healthy lives’ as a special day of awareness, recognition, and protection to the human brain from Thursday June 28 to Wednesday July 4. 

The registration, neuro consultation and specialist advice is free of cost and there will be a special brain screening package at Rs 1,499, stated a press release.

A brain tumour is a growth of abnormal cells in one’s brain. It is caused by a variety of signs and symptoms because it can directly press on or invade brain tissue, as per press release. 

Any person suffering from headache on a regular basis, which tend to worsen in the morning but is effortless during the day, vomits, has convulsions, weakness or has aching sensation in the legs and arms, lack of coordination while walking, abnormal eye movement, dimness or double vision, drowsiness, changes in speech, should have a checkup of the brain stated Dr Dibanath Chakrabarty of the Department of Neuro Surgery, stated the press release.