WSC 2025 | Improving stroke care in rural parts of India: the “Neurology on Wheels” initiative
Bindu Menon, MD, DM, FRCP, FAAN, FWSO, Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Nellore, India, Co-Chair of Research Committee at WSO & Board Member of SSO WSO, discusses the urban-rural divide in stroke care in India and the efforts to bridge this gap through her foundation. Prof. Menon highlights her flagship project, “Neurology on Wheels”, a mobile clinic that provides medical care and education to resource-limited villages. This interview took place at the 17th World Stroke Congress (WSC) in Barcelona, Spain.
These works are owned by Magdalen Medical Publishing (MMP) and are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All rights are reserved.
Transcript
I run a foundation, Dr Bindu Menon Foundation, which is focused on prevention, recognition of diseases, and responding to diseases. In that aspect, what I feel, and we see it in India, is that there is a huge urban-rural divide. And to bridge that gap of distance, gap of ignorance, and gap of treatment I started my flagship project that’s Neurology on Wheels that’s a bus designed in the form of a clinic and that goes into interior villages which are resource-poor which are medically unaware and we follow the motto “we reach, we teach, we treat”...
I run a foundation, Dr Bindu Menon Foundation, which is focused on prevention, recognition of diseases, and responding to diseases. In that aspect, what I feel, and we see it in India, is that there is a huge urban-rural divide. And to bridge that gap of distance, gap of ignorance, and gap of treatment I started my flagship project that’s Neurology on Wheels that’s a bus designed in the form of a clinic and that goes into interior villages which are resource-poor which are medically unaware and we follow the motto “we reach, we teach, we treat”. Apart from that we do the initiatives of school awareness and college awareness and civic societies and social organizations. We do our educational programs. We have other support groups. We run the stroke support organizations. We move around with health apps for them so that they can download the apps which are free to download for other disorders like migraine, epilepsy, and for stroke as well.
This transcript is AI-generated. While we strive for accuracy, please verify this copy with the video.
Read more...
