WSC 2025 | Ongoing strategies to refine prevention and management strategies for stroke in India
M.V. Padma Srivastava, MBBS, MD, DM, FAMS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, discusses ongoing efforts to refine prevention and management strategies for stroke in India. She highlights the National Preventive Strategies that have identified stroke as a key area of focus and notes that the government is implementing a comprehensive approach to improve care and prevent strokes. This interview took place at the 17th World Stroke Congress (WSC) in Barcelona, Spain.
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Now I think and I am talking about India as a prototype of say the developing Asian world. So I will talk about these strategies which are now going on in terms of dealing with the growing non-communicable disorders. CVST is one part of the strokes and stroke is one part of NCDs and they’re all interlinked when you’re looking at hypertension or diabetes, when you’re looking at cardiovascular or cerebrovascular health and cerebrovascular health in that you have arterial and venous strokes...
Now I think and I am talking about India as a prototype of say the developing Asian world. So I will talk about these strategies which are now going on in terms of dealing with the growing non-communicable disorders. CVST is one part of the strokes and stroke is one part of NCDs and they’re all interlinked when you’re looking at hypertension or diabetes, when you’re looking at cardiovascular or cerebrovascular health and cerebrovascular health in that you have arterial and venous strokes. So in that regard, the National Preventive Strategies have identified and put a focus on stroke in general, in which CVST is one part. And also as there is an algorithm which is now being recognized as important in strategy, you know, your interventional programs, which grow across whether it’s Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Energy and Ministry of Finance because we cannot, you know, ignore the elephant in the room which is the economics and they drive everything in the world and of course also in the Asian countries. So the government is looking into this both in terms of primary prevention, picking up strokes with arterial or venous, strategizing the stroke chain of survival and then go on to life after a stroke and rehabilitative strategies and secondary prevention. I think in every wheel of this or a spoke within this big wheel, there are strategies which are coming into force. We do have a national stroke action plan, which will be released soon. So, I think, and just not that we also have the research module, you know, which is akin to, and I’d say there’s interest in India, and I’m sure there are others also in other Asian countries. So you have these verticals which are now growing, getting focused, and they are becoming sustainable and scalable. And that’s, I think, the most important thing that whatever the efforts which are going in are being sustained. And I do see the potential of a scalability to be able to, you know, meet with the further challenges because the war is not won yet. So, but there is definitely light, which I can see in the end of the tunnel.
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