ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain has stressed the need for raising awareness and prevent people from getting complex fatal disease of stroke besides expanding provision of maximum treatment facilities to such people. At a time when every sixth person in the world is getting affected by complex and fatal disease of stroke it is imperative that awareness should be raised among the public to enable them to protect themselves from this disease by adopting preventive measures, he said in his message on the occasion of World Brain Day (July 22). The president said all efforts to raise awareness and prevent people from getting affected from such complex diseases were akin to serving the humanity. Similarly, he said other related diseases which cause deaths and paralysis were treatable which could be overcome by adopting preventive measures. He said efforts should be made to adopt healthy life style by shunning habits causing this disease like smoking and other such unhealthy activities. The president said not only relevant government departments in cooperation with welfare institutions should undertake all necessary steps to raise awareness among the people but also the scope of efforts to provide maximum facilities for treatment should be expanded. He commended the efforts of World Federation of Neurology and World Stroke Organization.