ANGELS INSIGHTS MONTH

In Montería in northern Colombia a leader from the ranks of emergency medical services is the catalyst for a stroke care network that joins together hospitals, EMS and the local healthcare authority in a united front against stroke. For the emergency nurse who leads this initiative, power lies in the sense of belonging to something bigger than oneself.

Edralyn Lapid-Paraguison is a neuroscience unit nurse at Bataan General Hospital and Medical Center in the Philippine city of Balanga in Bataan province. She shares a heartfelt story filled with gratitude about the hospital’s desire to improve their stroke care and their ultimate success.

A powerful combination of imagination and will shapes the story of the first and so far only hospital in Pakistan to win a WSO Angels Award.

Angels South America has launched the second edition of its six-month mentoring program in which distinguished stroke experts from Argentina, Chile and Colombia provide guidance to healthcare professionals whose work has the potential to improve quality of care for stroke patients. Meet the mentors and the mentees.

Driven by a competitive and curious nature, and the need to take care “of someone or something”, Dr Marco Longoni’s career to date is a masterclass in achieving and sustaining excellence.

If you want to know the sort of neurologist Dr Paweł Wrona is, just ask his patients. But if you want to understand how he became that way, you will find the answer in the theatre.