Community stories

As president of the Neurological Association of South Africa (NASA), Dr Patty Francis provides leadership in a complex healthcare environment where stroke incidence is rising and increasingly affecting younger, work-age individuals. Drawn to medicine as a tool for societal transformation, the trust of patients in their most vulnerable moments keeps her buoyant. We spoke to her ahead of the annual NASA congress in May.

Desiring better outcomes for stroke patients was what motivated the team at ER24 Durban to partner with Angels. But the process has also opened doors, allowed relationships to grow, and rewarded this proud team with a well-deserved diamond award.

One by one, three dreams came true in the Kazakh province of Aktobe, location of the first four Angels Regions not only in Kazakhstan, but in all of Central Asia.

Hungarian paramedic and researcher Ferenc Molnár follows a road that doesn’t exist in pursuit of a future he insists upon. Now this perfectionist has delivered on a promise to quantify the impact of Angels collaboration on prehospital performance, with an analysis of over 80,000 cases.

A collision with a surfboard briefly landed an Angels consultant in an island hospital, in circumstances ideal for taking the new Angels consultancy model for a spin.

Latvia scores a first as the city of Riga is recognized as an Angels Region, marking more than a third of the country’s population safe for stroke.