 Hello friends, I am Dr. Bhushan Joshi. I am a consultant neurologist practicing at Munipal Hospital, Kharadi. This is an attempt to create awareness about stroke-ready centre. So, let us understand what is stroke-ready centre? Stroke-ready centre is a hospital where all the members required for treatment of the stroke are along with the equipment are available 24 by 7. So, let us understand why it is important? What is the need of stroke centre? Why it is advantageous to treat patients in a stroke centre? So, we know stroke is a brain attack which is damage of brain which can happen because of disruption, particularly blockage of the blood vessel because of the blood clot inside the blood vessel. We understand or we identify stroke by sudden onset symptoms such as balancing problem, patient starts to have a disbalance, sudden loss of vision, then sudden onset slurring of speech or loss of speech, sudden onset weakness of arm or leg. And once we know this is stroke, then we have to reach hospital within particular timeframe called as window period because if we open the clot in that particular time span, then only patient can be reversed or partially reversed from the stroke symptoms. So, this has to be done very fast and in very coordinate way. In stroke-ready centres, all the members which includes neurologist, emergency team in charge, intervention radiologist, then support staff, well trained nursing staff, availability of a particular medication, availability of a 24 by 7 ready cath lab. All these team members are always on alert whenever patient of stroke come to stroke-ready centre. All these team members are activated by a system called as stroke code. So, every member of this team are well trained to do their job. They don't have to communicate with each other, they do their job parallelly and water information for the treatment of stroke with either thrombolosis or thrombectomy, a particular treatment for this stroke is achieved in shortest period of time and treatment can be initiated as early as possible. The standard timing in good stroke centre from the arrival of patient to thrombolosis that is giving injection is 40 minutes or less and for thrombectomy is 60 minutes or less. If we do it as fast as the world standard then we can save maximum amount of the brain of patient and this patient do definitely well in future as compared to a stroke patient who is not treated in stroke-ready centre where this timing cannot be achieved in less than 1 hour. So, this is scientifically proven data all across the world. That is why they say better to get treated in stroke-ready centre because stroke is an emergency and it is a time dependent disease. Sooner we treat better is the reason. So, simple way to understand the need of stroke-ready centre is they say everyone knows the recipe but the best dish is always made by chef. That is how stroke-ready centre is helpful for treatment of stroke. Thank you.