World Patient Safety Day: 17 September 2019
#PatientSafety and #WorldPatientSafetyDay.
17 September 2019 is observed, for the first time, as World Patient Safety Day. This is a Pan – nations campaign launched by WHO is aimed to create awareness of patient safety, and urge people to show their commitment to making healthcare safer.
As per WHO statistics
- 134 million adverse events occur each year due to unsafe care in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, contributing to 2.6 million deaths annually
- 15% of hospital expenses can be attributed to treating patient safety failures in OECD countries
- 4 out of 10 patients are harmed in the primary and ambulatory settings; up to 80% of harm in these settings can be avoided
Let’s we all take a pledge together that we shall abide to Patient safety. Patient safety is a chain of many people who may play a small but a substantial role in assuring safety to a patient. Patients themselves, families, caregivers, communities, health workers, health-care leaders and policy makers ahould be commited to assure patient safety.
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