Overview
- Hospitals and health agencies rolled out campaigns urging immediate recognition of face, arm and speech changes and calling emergency services to reach care within the 4.5-hour window.
- An Argentina survey reported that 69% say they know what a stroke is yet only 38% would know how to act, and many would head to the nearest hospital rather than a stroke-ready center.
- Peru’s EsSalud said it has treated 13,362 stroke patients so far in 2025 and detailed an 83-year-old who recovered after Código Stroke enabled intravenous thrombolysis in under 45 minutes.
- Health systems highlighted new or expanding networks such as Salta’s Tele‑Stroke program that links interior hospitals with neurologists to speed imaging, diagnosis and time-critical treatment.
- Specialists emphasized that about 80–85% of strokes are ischemic and can respond to thrombolysis or thrombectomy if diagnosed quickly, that hemorrhagic strokes are less common but deadlier, and that controlling hypertension can prevent most cases.