Community stories

It’s mindset, not location that counts. That is the lesson from Madeira, the first island in Europe to become an Angels Region.

The health and well-being of children was the focus of a conference held in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 22 April – and FAST Heroes was on the agenda.

Stroke was in the news in Kazakhstan during April as a history-making Train the Trainer event – the first in Central Asia – was followed just days later by a ceremony to celebrate the country’s first Angels Regions.

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.