Community stories

Dr Adolfo Savia has the simplest reason for being an emergency physician: when people get hurt, he must be there – not only to prevent death and disaster, but to bring calm and kindness to people in their darkest hour.

These three hospitals in the South Indian states of Kerala and Karnataka have achieved stroke care excellence as a result of partnering with the Angels Initiative. Here are their success stories.

Media coverage of a breakthrough partnership between Boehringer Ingelheim and the Vietnamese ministry of health has shone the light on the outstanding results delivered by the Angels Team Vietnam.

In South Africa’s Western Cape province, a district hospital is first across the line in the WSO Angels Awards, bringing evidence-based stroke care to a community at risk.

The idea that success breeds success is born out by the story of Netcare Alberton Hospital, which was barely a year old when it became the first in the Netcare group of private hospitals to receive international recognition for stroke care.

The staff at this hospital in southern Poland had witnessed outcomes for stroke patients who’d been unable to access treatment in time. Now their determination to be part of the change was summed up in the words of the local ambulance chief: “Whatever you need, we will do it!”