Community stories

When two stroke codes interrupted a meeting at a hospital in Spain, an Angels consultant was allowed to become part of the stroke team. The experience almost made her apply to med school but turned out to be transformative in several other ways.

In a country with almost 250 million people, fewer than 300 CT scanners and just a handful of stroke-treating hospitals, what can one team do? Do not answer this question until you have met the stroke heroes of Services Hospital in Lahore, Pakistan.

Caught on video during ESOC 2023, Angels consultants Maxeen Murugan from South Africa and Inês Carvalho from Portugal talk about the importance of listening, the best advice they ever received, the impact one individual can have, and working from the heart.

Dr Ignacio Girolimini wanted to improve stroke care in his small town in Argentina. Dr Claudio Jiménez, who had transformed stroke care at his own hospital in Colombia, became his mentor. This is their story.

How different is being an Angels consultant in Slovakia from being an Angels consultant in South Africa? What challenges do they face and what do they have in common? What is the best advice they have received, and when did they cry? Watch and listen to a conversation between Diana Urbáni from Slovakia and Bernise Schubert from South Africa, recorded at ESOC 2023.

Quality monitoring breathed new life into this emergency nurse’s career and catapulted two EMS centres in Tuscany onto the international awards stage. The good news is, Cristina Riganti is not done learning and growing.