Community stories

An inventive Angels consultant in Poland has pioneered a training exercise for nurses that has the potential to impact acute stroke treatment at their hospitals.

At a hospital in Rosario, Argentina, a patient who’d suffered a stroke during a cardiac procedure was treated in a record-breaking 10 minutes. Its head of neurology Dr Guadalupe Bruera explains how the stroke team at this hospital defies evidence of a quality gap in caring for in-hospital stroke.

This municipal hospital in central Romania had promised that they would put another pin on the map and become a stroke-treating hospital. Then things happened a lot faster than anyone ever imagined.

A caring community and a courageous doctor sparked a revolution in stroke care in a remote corner of Saudi Arabia – then one patient made all the difference.

On “Oscar night” for Brazil’s pharmaceutical industry, the Angels team was recognised for give life a second chance.

In Zambia, exponential growth in general neurology capacity is coinciding with significant gains in stroke care and stroke research. Dr Deanna Saylor, associate professor of neurology at John Hopkins Medicine, outlines their approach.