PRINTER'S NO. 2542
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
297
Session of
2024
INTRODUCED BY MATZIE, PICKETT, SANCHEZ, GALLAGHER, GREINER,
HILL-EVANS, COOK, BRENNAN, GIRAL, MALAGARI, KHAN, NEILSON,
CAUSER, HARKINS, MARSHALL, DALEY, R. MACKENZIE, KAUFFMAN,
BERNSTINE, HADDOCK, KAZEEM, HOWARD AND O'MARA,
JANUARY 31, 2024
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, JANUARY 31, 2024
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the week of March 10 through 16, 2024, as "Multiple
Sclerosis Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease of the
central nervous system affecting an estimated 2.3 million
people; and
WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania chapters of the National Multiple
Sclerosis Society report that in this Commonwealth more than
24,000 people are affected by multiple sclerosis; and
WHEREAS, Multiple sclerosis generally strikes young adults 20
to 50 years of age, attacking them in the prime of their lives,
and the cause and a cure remain unknown; and
WHEREAS, For 78 years, the National Multiple Sclerosis
Society has been committed to a world free of multiple sclerosis
and to heightening public knowledge and insight about the
disease; and
WHEREAS, Since 1946, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
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