Historias de la comunidad

Angels consultant Deepti Sawhney took a leap into the unknown when she agreed to work in Chhattisgarh. She had never travelled; parts of the state were dangerous, and each hospital presented a separate challenge. She shares her story.

“If your patient is also your neighbour, your uncle, or the local hero, you simply cannot be anything other than the best.” This is the attitude that has put IPSS Medical Rescue on the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal on course for an EMS Angels diamond award.

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 ha lanzado la segunda edición de su programa de mentores de seis meses en el que distinguidos expertos en ictus de Argentina, Chile y Colombia brindan orientación a profesionales de la salud cuyo trabajo tiene el potencial de mejorar la calidad de la atención a pacientes con ictus. Conoce a los mentores y a los aprendices.