Community stories

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.

Dainfern College in Johannesburg shot to the top of the FAST Heroes leaderboard last November, thanks to a handful of eight-graders bent on making a difference.

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.