Stroke Unit & Neuroscience Research Unit/Department of Medicine, Western Hospital, Footscray, Vic. 3011, Australia.
Int J Stroke. 2012 Feb;7(2):163-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-4949.2011.00625.x. Epub 2011 Oct 4.
Sri Lanka has an ageing population with an impending epidemic of stroke at hand. Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has seen many recent advances in stroke services in the recent past providing a benchmark example for the countries in the Asia Pacific region, modeling the best care for stroke patients across the region with limited facilities they have. Three postgraduate trainees in neurology and medicine from Sri Lanka will spend a year at Western Health/ University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia for a period of 12 months for training in neurorehabilitation for stroke. It is timely for neurology trainees and trainees in internal medicine in Sri Lanka to be interested in neurorehabilitation. We sincerely hope the Board of study of Neurology, Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, Colombo, Sri Lanka will take the necessary steps to establish neurorehabilitation as an emerging sub-specialty for neurology trainees in Sri Lanka now.
斯里兰卡人口老龄化，即将面临中风疫情。中风是斯里兰卡导致成年人残疾的主要原因。在最近一段时间，斯里兰卡在中风服务方面取得了许多进展，为亚太地区的国家树立了标杆，为该地区设施有限的中风患者提供了最佳护理。来自斯里兰卡的 3 名神经病学和医学研究生将在澳大利亚墨尔本的西部健康/墨尔本大学进行为期 12 个月的中风神经康复培训。对于斯里兰卡的神经病学学员和内科学员来说，对神经康复产生兴趣是及时的。我们衷心希望科伦坡医学研究生学院神经病学委员会采取必要措施，将神经康复作为斯里兰卡神经病学学员的一个新兴专业。
