While the COVID-19 pandemic has garnered global attention, some physicians within the Caribbean are aiming to highlight the long-existing ischemic stroke, and are pushing to revolutionize the region’s health care system to facilitate adequate stroke care. 

The physicians gathered at a mechanical thrombectomy workshop at the University Hospital of the West Indies on Monday to discuss a new treatment to limit deaths and disability.

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Reporter: Velonique Bowen