The only thing Nepalganj doesn’t have (yet) is stroke care. And strokes are also a non-existent topic among the population (yet). Therefore it was so great to see how much enthusiasm for the topic of stroke was raised by our first Stroke Care Event in Nepalganj. We now see everyone thinking about which little actions can be undertaken in clinical routine to bring stroke care to the next level. And the first step toward that is to create a stroke team in each hospital.
Dr. Avinash Chandra, leading member of the Nepal Stroke Association, with his ambition to bring stroke care to everyone in Nepal, and JCI Nepalgunj organized this first (but not last) stroke- care event. They invited the Deputy Mayor of Nepalganj as a representative from the government and twenty doctors from the governmental Bheri Hospital and the Nepalgunj Medical College Teaching Hospital (neurosurgeons, general physicians, orhtopedic surgeons, internists and anesthesiologists).