Damilola Adeleke was just setting out to work when she realised she could not reach for her shoes. All of a sudden, it seemed like she could not move her hands.
The young accountant was also not able to call for help. Her aunt, who was wondering why she had not yet left the house as usual, eventually found her motionless on the floor. Their family doctor who revived her told them that Damilola had just suffered a stroke.
Stroke, when it occurs in an individual as the word suggests, is like when one has been struck. And this terminal disease used to be associated with elderly people in their 60s and 70s, experts, including neurosurgeons, have raised the alarm that stroke is no more a disease of the aged, as it is killing and disabling young people in their prime.















































