The ICTUS Brake Foundation has granted the production plant of the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in Aranda de Duero the certification as “Brain-protected space” after implementing online training whose purpose is to allow identification, stabilization and action in the event of a stroke in their workplace or in their family and social environment.
Specifically, the project has consisted of the training of 30% of the plant staff of GSK in Aranda de Duero, representing 200 employees of the factory trained and prepared to identify and act in case of stroke. In this way, the GSK plant in Aranda de Duero becomes the first factory to achieve such recognitionachieving coverage of trained personnel in the event of a stroke in the three shifts at the factory and in the weekend shift.
In the picture, Julio Agredano, president of the ICTUS Stop Foundation; Elena Hermida, head of the GSK Aranda Occupational Health Service, and Ismael de los Mozos, director of the GSK Aranda factory
During the ceremony of delivery of this certificate, the importance of acting quickly when faced with the symptoms of this cerebrovascular disease was highlighted. In this sense, the president of the Freno al ICTUS Foundation, Julio Agredanoinsisted that “The time of action in the case of stroke is key to the success in the care of this disease, since it 80% of people who are treated in the first four hours have no sequelae or, if they do, they are moderate”.
“With the project developed at the GSK plant in Aranda de Duero, we achieved for the first time certify a factory and its three work shiftswith GSK workers being the first to act at any time of the day if a stroke occurs at their facilities”highlighted the president of the .
For his part, Ismael de los MozosFactory Manager Arandastressed the great satisfaction that receiving this certification produces, “which reflects, on the one hand, GSK’s commitment to society, helping to raise awareness about the importance of knowing how to identify a case of stroke in timeand on the other, with our employees, since we are creating a safer work environment in which 30% of the workforce is capable of detecting a stroke and quickly activating the action protocol”.
And it is that this training also values the social importance that the company workers can be the first to sound the alarm and that thanks to its rapid and correct action, the chain of care and survival in the event of a stroke is accelerated.
He stroke is a cerebrovascular disease that affects more than 120,000 people each year in Spain. figure like the leading cause of death in women, being the second globally, and the first cause of disability in adults. The good news is that 90% of cases can be preventedr.
Throughout life, 1 in 6 people will suffer a strokeand 35% of these episodes will occur in working age, causing a mortality 5 times higher than that of breast cancer. The primary objective of this certification is save lives and prevent sequelae; This is achieved thanks to the immediate activation of the protocol “Stroke Code”through the emergency service 112.
“” is a certification obtained through online training, developed with the collaboration of the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN) through its Cerebrovascular Diseases Study Group (GEECV), endorsed by the scientific society itself and has the support of the Spanish Association of Occupational Medicine Specialists (AEEMT) and the Spanish Association of Occupational Prevention Services (AESPLA). In addition, it is included in the State Foundation for Employment Training (FUNDAE) and 100% bonus.