Mira Road’s Wockhardt Hospital becomes Maharashtra’s first QAI-accredited Advanced Stroke Centre

New Delhi: Wockhardt Hospitals, Mira Road has received the Advanced Stroke Centre Accreditation from the Quality and Accreditation Institute (QAI) – Centre for Accreditation of Health & Social Care.

This recognition makes Wockhardt Hospitals, Mira Road the first in Maharashtra to reach this high standard, revolutionizing stroke care with top-notch quality, state-of-the-art technology, and skilled expertise for acute care and rehabilitation.

The hospital provides comprehensive stroke care around the clock, treating all types of brain strokes with successful outcomes. In previous years, the Wockhardt Stroke Centre was awarded a Platinum rating in 2022 and a Gold Rating in 2023 by the World Stroke Organization Angels Awards, highlighting its excellence in stroke care.

Dr. Pavan Pai, Consultant Interventional Neurologist at Wockhardt Hospitals, emphasized, “India has a huge number of brain strokes. Stroke can happen to anyone, anywhere, and demands immediate medical intervention. Given this, the Hospital has established a well-equipped and manned Advanced Stroke Centre and formed a Stroke Support Group wherein stroke survivors come together and share their experiences on a common platform and motivate other stroke patients to work on rehabilitation as it can lead to permanent disabilities. Once a stroke patient arrives in the ER we announce a special Code for initiating Stroke protocol which helps all the members of the stroke team to get alert for quicker treatment. The patient is clinically assessed and wheeled to the Neuroimaging suite swiftly and once the ischemic stroke is confirmed if the patient is within a window period of 4.5 hours then IV thrombolysis (clot buster) is initiated within one hour of arrival of the patient.”

Dr. Pankaj Dhamija, Center Head at Wockhardt Hospitals, Mira Road stated, “During the assessment, various areas pertaining to the treatment of stroke patients were assessed for quality and patient care. Timelines to initiate IV thrombolysis and Mechanical thrombectomy were analyzed and found to be satisfactory. Patients undergoing treatment were interviewed for delight. Efforts taken to spread stroke awareness among the community were taken into consideration. The hospital has been at the forefront of treating fatal neurological conditions such as a stroke, aneurysms, intra-cranial bleeding, etc. On average this center alone treated 150+ Stroke Patients in the last year, with an average – of almost one new stroke patient every two days.”