Deans' stroke musings: Health Ministry launches new tools to support patients, caregivers

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Health Ministry launches new tools to support patients, caregivers - Guyana

WOW, instead of solving stroke to 100% recovery, you just gave up and are leaving survivors in the lurch.

Health Ministry launches new tools to support patients, caregivers

The Health Ministry on Friday launched new tools- the Life After Stroke and Amputee handbooks, and a mobile app- that are expected to provide much-needed support to caregivers, patients, and healthcare providers.

These tools were launched as part of Rehab Week 2025, which is being celebrated under the theme “From rehab to reliance, re-empowering recovery through movement and strength.”

The new tools are expected to go fully into use next week; they were developed to help empower individuals who undergo rehabilitation services.

Each handbook, for example, will help persons understand how to prepare for and deal with a stroke and what aftercare support is needed. Then there is the Guyana Rehab App, which will be available for download on the Play Store and App Store.

Ariane Mangar, the Director of the Disability and Rehabilitation Services Department, said these tools are part of the department’s efforts to provide multifaceted services for patients.

“This is about improving access and helping people to get the help they need faster.

“This app is a simple but powerful digital platform that puts information, appointment access resources directly into the patient’s hands,” Mangar said.

Patients and the team from the Ministry of Health attended the event.

Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony also said that the tools are great initiatives that will improve access to healthcare.('Access' is not what is needed. Provide 100% recovery and none of these problems exist. Can't you people think at all?)

And he encouraged people to take their healthcare seriously and use medications as recommended. He said heart conditions and diabetes are linked to complications that cause strokes and others that lead to amputation of limbs.

“Conditions like diabetes, hypertension, heart disease so that once we manage them properly, we prevent these types of outcomes where people might have the complications of these diseases,” Dr. Anthony said.