title: National epilepsy surgery support activity.
abstract: While there are over one million people with drug-resistant epilepsy in India, today, there are only a handful of centers equipped to undertake presurgical evaluation and epilepsy surgery. The only solution to overcome this large surgical treatment gap is to establish comprehensive epilepsy care centers across the country that are capable of evaluating and selecting the patients for epilepsy surgery with the locally available technology and in a cost-effective manner. The National Epilepsy Surgery Support Activity (NESSA) aims to provide proper guidance and support in establishing epilepsy surgery programs across India and in neighboring resource-poor countries, and in sustaining them.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Radhakrishnan
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: Chaturbhuj
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rathore
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Malla Bhaskara
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Rao
keywords: Drug resistant epilepsy; epilepsy; epilepsy surgery