The critical time for handling stroke is so short that fast action is needed to prevent death rates from diseases that include the world's highest killers.
Dr. Mursyid Bustami, President Director of the National Brain Center Hospital, said that the sooner stroke patients are handled and with proper handling and adequate facilities and human resources are supported, the death and health expenditure will decrease.
"If going abroad is too late, the time for good stroke handling is very short," he said recently.
According to him, when exposed to stroke, patients only have a very short time. Existing medications can only work effectively against a patient before 4.5 hours from the onset of a stroke.
Therefore, no place is best for those who have a stroke unless they come to the hospital. "Whenever the time, it should not be eagerly awaited."
He ensures, the longer the new patient is handled, the more part of the brain is damaged by not getting the nutrients, oxygen and so on.
With this problem, the various layers of society should not remain silent. Stroke management should be done from the most upstream aspect, ie prevention, in the form of controlling risk factors.
Such as efforts to lower blood pressure, because the first risk factor is hypertension. Then control the regional sugar or diabetes, which is also one risk factor, then high cholesterol and many others.
"But the main thing, do not get a stroke." Hopefully the next 5-10 years the prevalence rate can go down again and even if stroke, people are aware, already know that the disease is not kidding, can be defective life alive, so quickly come to the hospital, this is important. "
In addition to the impact on the body, the importance of the community to be aware of stroke also because of the handling that requires high costs.
