Stroke awareness campaign targets women
The Jersey Stroke Association is using World Health Day to launch a new awareness campaign as they say women don't always realise how often strokes can affect them.
The Jersey Stroke Association is using World Health Day to launch a new awareness campaign as they say women don't always realise how often strokes can affect them.
Women are being warned they can have strokes as well as men
The Jersey Stroke Association is using World Health Day to launch a new awareness campaign as they say women don't always realise how often strokes can affect them.
It is estimated that 125 people in Jersey have a stroke each year, and hundreds are living with the effects of a stroke.
The weekend event coincides with International Pride Month and the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
The scheme has been backed by the island's Lieutenant-Governor, and is the first of its kind in the Channel Islands.
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