Dear Dr Guekht
Many thanks for introducing your work and advocating for strengthening epilepsy response internationally. The ministry admits the importance of the epilepsy as a public health concern and will note the report prepared by WHO on this issue. Although all neurological conditions are related to significant health and societal burden we think that the strong focus should remain on epilepsy to ensure well targeted and adequately planned response. Based on this consideration, we can only support the point (1) of the draft decision you’ve kindly shared yesterday.
პატივისცემით,
თამარ გაბუნია
მინისტრის პირველი მოადგილე
Sincerely,
Tamar Gabunia, MD, MPH
First Deputy Minister
From: guekht@gmail.com [mailto:guekht@gmail.com]
Sent: 5 February, 2020 14:53
To: 'Natela Okujava'
Cc: 'Guekht Alla'
Subject: RE:
Dear Natela,
Many thanks. It was a great pleasure and honor to meet Ms. Gabunia.
The support of Georgia is greatly appreciated.
Thanks again and kindest regards,
Alla
From: Natela Okujava <natelaokujava@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 9:40 AM
To: tgabunia@moh.gov.ge; guekht@gmail.com
Cc: 'Guekht Alla' <guekht@mail.ru>; 'Eduard Salakhov Salakhov' <eduard.salakhov@gmail.com>; 'Сонин Олег Владимирович' <soninov@rosminzdrav.ru>; 'Sofia Kasradze' <sofiakas@gmail.com>; n_tatishvili@hotmail.com
Subject:
Dear Alla,
From your letter I understood that you met Tamar Gabunia, our deputy minister. This is great. She was who signed the support letter from Georgia. Thus, she must be aware on our issue.
Was she supportive?
Warm wishes
Natela
On Tuesday, February 4, 2020, 05:02:57 PM GMT+4, guekht@gmail.com <guekht@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Ms. Gabunia,
It is a great pleasure and honor meeting you.
We are closely collaborating with my friends and colleagues Professors Natella Okudjava, Sifia Kasradse and Nana Tatishvily (copied)
Please find attached the letter from Georgia and the most recent version of the Draft Decision, proposed by Russia and co-sponsored by China and Guyana. I am copying to Dr.Eduard Salakhov, Health Attaché of the Mission of the Russian Federation, and Dr. Oleg Sonin from the Russian Ministry of Health.
The Global Epilepsy Report on Epilepsy, published in 2019 by the WHO in collaboration with the International League against epilepsy and the International Bureau for epilepsy, with Summary in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish may be downloaded from the WHO website https://www.who.int/mental_health/neurology/epilepsy/report_2019/en/ We will be happy to present you the copy tomorrow.
Many thanks and kindest regards,
Alla Guekht, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Russian National Research Medical University
Director, Moscow Research and Clinical Center for Neuropsychiatry
Vice President, International League against Epilepsy
Elected Trustee, World Federation of Neurology