You are focusing on the wrong failure point. You have your doctors stop the neuronal cascade of death by these 5 causes
in the first week, leading to much less death and disability. If you
want to complain about rehab services, complain about the correct thing.
Rehab fails to get to almost full recovery a full 90% of the time.
http://www.eveningecho.ie/cork-news/stroke-survivors-want-better-rehab/2562339/
STROKE survivors, including from Cork, have attended an Oireachtas
briefing in Leinster House to talk about the lack of rehabilitation
services.
On behalf of 50,000 stroke survivors in Ireland, Cork’s Michael
Smithers, from Ballinlough, joined with others from around the country
to meet their local TDs and highlight the need for better rehabilitation
services.
The information session was organised by the Irish Heart Foundation,
with the support of Medtronic, one of the world’s largest medical
technology companies, ahead of World Stroke Day.
A study launched on the day, conducted by the Irish Heart Foundation and
the HSE’s National Stroke Programme, showed large gaps in vital
recovery services for stroke patients around the country, with just one
in four rehabilitation hospitals having a dedicated stroke unit; with
60% lacking a stroke specialist to oversee rehabilitation; and with less
than one in three having any access to psychological services.
The audit also showed major organisational deficits across the rehabilitation hospital network.
For example, half of the hospitals couldn’t provide accurate information
on the numbers of stroke patients they had admitted or discharged in
the previous year, whilst bed access was restricted, based on age, in 12
of the 26 hospitals audited.
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