Community stories

The start of a new chapter in ICH care is the moment for all of us — every neurologist, every emergency physician, every nurse, every stroke team — to act, writes Jan van der Merwe in his introduction to the latest issue of the Angels Journey.

New evidence that a combination of actions performed together can reduce death and disability in intracerebral haemorrhagic stroke (ICH) was a call to action for the Angels Initiative to devise a set of tools that supports and standardizes implementation.

Dr Priscilla Abrafi Opare-Addo of Ghana attended Angels Day in Kenya, eager to turn knowledge into experience, and learn new ways of caring for stroke patients. She would not go home empty-handed.

Croatia’s first Angels Region demonstrates what it means to work together, embrace every challenge, and lead from the front.

What was once a vision is now a strategy, as a collective of likeminded physicians, unprecedented political support, and a planeload of Ukrainian experts usher in a new era for stroke in Uzbekistan.

A multidisciplinary meeting at one of Cape Town’s diamond hospitals offers a privileged glimpse inside a team with transparency and camaraderie at its core.