Apollo Hospitals on Saturday launched the Apollo Stroke Network to reply to the wants of these with particular neurological situations.

Suneetha Reddy, managing director, Apollo Hospitals Group, stated that on the subject of strokes, each minute counts and the hospitals’ stroke response mannequin is designed on that precept.

Justice Ok. Kumaresh Babu of Madras High Court; Vinay, GST deputy commissioner, Chennai; Bharathi Baskar, Tamil orator and public speaker; Senthil, actor; and Rajmohan, motivational speaker participated within the occasion.

Presenting the construction of the Apollo Stroke Network, Srinivasan Paramasivam, head of neuroendovascular surgical procedure at Apollo Hospitals stated it would embody superior look after neuroendovascular therapy of ischemic stroke like Mechanical Thrombectomy and Endovascular and Microsurgical therapy of haemorrhagic stroke.

“The emerging stroke treatments that we see today are time-dependent. We presently have 4.5 hours as the recognised time limit to initiate an intravenous thrombolysis in an indicated patient. Any sudden neurological development should be considered as a warning sign of stroke,” stated Karthikeyan, interventional neurologist, Apollo Speciality Hospitals.