April 2023

Patient in Flintshire’s new stroke rehab centre thanks consultant for ‘saving him’.

A new stroke rehabilitation centre opened in Deeside Community Hospital as part of a £3million programme to improve stroke care in North Wales.

The first male patient in the stroke rehabilitation centre was Carl Lamb, 59, from Rossett, who thanked Flintshire and Wrexham’s new Stroke Consultant Nia Williams for helping him during his recovery.

Carl, a joiner by trade, collapsed whilst working and when he called his wife and heard himself speak, he realised he was slurring his words and that he’d had a stroke. He was taken to the nearest hospital in Cheshire and transferred to Wrexham Maelor Hospital’s stroke ward. He was then given the first male bed available in the new centre.