As reported in The Island, the British medical correspondent Kate Delvin has stated in her article, pertaining to the above subject, when a patient develops symptoms of either monoplegia or hemiplegia, with minimum delay the patient should be referred to a competent specialist who conducts the clinic for stroke victims. Verily she is perfectly correct because when the appropriate treatment is delayed, even the most capable neurologist will certainly find it difficult to treat that patient successfully, Delvin has also referred to Joe Korner from the Stroke Association, who is said to have stated that for every fourteen patients who go through some stroke unit, only one survives.

From 1986 to 1996 as a retired medical practitioner, I have treated more than forty stroke victims. My father-in-law, at the age of 86, got an attack of hemiplegia - R/S lower and upper arms were affected. Within three hours I treated him with the usual medicine prescribed by any doctor for a stroke victim. He duly got over his paralysis and within two days was able to walk without stumbling. He lived for another six years and died at the age of 92.

A retired English teacher known to me developed monoplegia, that is paralysis of one limb. I treated him within four hours. He got over his paralysis and lived for 23 years more, attending to his normal duties without any problem and died recently at the ripe age of 93. In truth, these two patients were treated within a few hours after the attack. Hence, what Delvin has stated in the article is perfectly true.

Three of my paralytic patients, who were treated by me nearly fifteen years ago, are still alive and all three are octogenarians. Assuredly, I certainly cannot claim credit for my treatment. I am compelled to give thanks and praise to Jesus and Saint Pio. Saint Pio, was not even beatified at that time. However, I felt that Padre Pio was present at the time I treated my paralytic patients.

For my stroke victims before giving the drip at his/her house, I always recited a short powerful prayer to Jesus and pleaded with Padre Pio to help me to give succour to my patients. The patients invariably were cured. What is also of importance is that the patients were saved from incurring heavy expenses such as transport, blood tests, ECG, X' ray etc.

When stroke victims develop bedsores, the best medicine is the juice of komarica, which in more superior to fucidine or any other cream. Garlic and bees-honey are very useful. For a recovered patient, it is advisable for him/her to take one tablet of cardiprin daily to prevent relapse.

Now my age and health do not permit me to treat stroke victims. I have to be with the patient for at least for six hours to give him/her relief. This I cannot do with inexorable age catching up with me.