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The Pervaiz Naviede Family Trust (PNFT), the organisation behind a new £20m property development in Hackney, London has today announced a charitable donation of £50,000 to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSHCC). The money will be used to fund revolutionary treatment for young epilepsy patients.

The donation will help support treatment for children with the condition, which in some severe circumstances can cause hundreds of seizures a day. An estimated 30% of patients are resistant to drug-based treatment with the hospital’s Children’s Epilepsy Surgery Service (CESS) – one of the largest  in Europe – currently operating on around 80-90 patients a year, a number which is set to increase by 20%.

Rudi Falla, spokesperson for the Pervaiz Naviede Family Trust which owns a number of companies including property developer LPC Living, said: “It’s difficult to imagine the distress that complex epilepsy can cause both to children and their families. The staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital do such an amazing job, the Trust was only too pleased to have been able to make this donation to help provide life-changing treatment for children.”

Mr William Harkness, Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon,  at GOSH,  said:  “Many people do not realise that surgery is an option in the treatment of Epilepsy in children or if they do they think of it as being a ‘last resort’. Research done by the team at GOSH has now clearly shown the benefits of early surgery on the long term outcome of children and the role of early surgery is increasingly being recognised.”

“We are tremendously grateful for this donation which helps us continue this essential research which provides the valuable evidence for the role of surgery and thus directly benefits so many children with uncontrolled epilepsy.”

GOSHCC is one of a number of charities and organisations that lies close to the heart of the The Trust. One of the core objectives of the Trust is to invest in projects which ultimately provide long-term benefits to communities with an additional emphasis on providing financial support to health-related causes.

Construction started earlier this year on the mixed-use development at 7-19 Amhurst Road, Hackney which comprises an 80 bed Travelodge hotel, apartments and retail space with completion anticipated next summer.