Rebuilding lives touched by strokes


A STROKE. How many of us know what it is?

I certainly didn’t know much about it until a few weeks ago, when I spoke to National Stroke Association of Malaysia (Nasam) founder Janet Yeo. I knew the broad strokes of what happens – that a stroke happens when brain cells die due to an interruption in the blood nourishing our body’s nerve centre.

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Opinion , Tan Yi Liang , columnist

   

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