No one should be harmed in health care.
Yet, every minute, 5 patients die because of unsafe care.
The 🆕 Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030 provides strategic direction for eliminating avoidable harm in health care & improving #PatientSafety
Implementing the 🆕 Global #PatientSafety Action Plan 2021-2030 will help prevent & reduce risks, errors & harm that occur to patients when they receive health care.
Every patient should receive:
✅ safe & respectful care
✅ every time
✅ everywhere
The 🆕 action plan aims to drive forward #PatientSafety policies, strategies & actions based on:
🧪 science
📄 patient experience
🔄 system design
🤝 partnerships
@DrTedros "In January of this year, a midwife from #Uganda called Harriet Nayiga joined our press conference to talk about her experience as a health worker during the #COVID19 pandemic"-@DrTedros
@DrTedros "While vaccines were being rolled out in the wealthiest countries, Harriet was one of many #healthworkers in Africa and around the 🌍 who was still waiting for her turn to be vaccinated. At the time, #Uganda – like much of Africa – had relatively few cases of #COVID19"-@DrTedros
During #COVID19, more than ever, 👨⚕️👩⚕️ must be protected & respected, & hospitals & health facilities & transportation, incl. 🚑 should not be used for military purposes – essential conditions for the continued delivery of critical health services.
🆕 data from the Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care shows that, since 2017 over:
💥 2700 incidents in 17 countries & territories have been recorded
💥 700 health care workers & patients have died, & over 2000 have been injured
Hundreds of health facilities have been destroyed or closed, health workers killed and injured, and millions of people denied the healthcare they deserve.
Remarks by @DrMikeRyan delivered on behalf of @DrTedros at the @UN General Assembly meeting on @TheIndPanel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response ⬇️
"The Director-General, @DrTedros, sends his apologies that he cannot be here, and I have the honour of delivering these remarks on his behalf."-@DrMikeRyan
"I would like to thank President @MaEllenSirleaf and the Right Honourable @HelenClarkNZ for their leadership as co-chairs of @TheIndPanel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, and for the work of the panel members and the secretariat."-@DrMikeRyan
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