September 17 – World Patient Safety Day 2021 – Act Now for Safe and Respectful Childbirth
Today – September 17 – is World Patient Safety Day.
No one should be harmed in healthcare. Yet thousands of patients across the world suffer avoidable harm or are put at risk of injury while receiving healthcare every single day. Women and newborns are especially at risk, did you know that every day:
nearly 5,400 stillbirths occur
810 women lose their lives
6700 newborns lose their lives?
Most of these lives can be saved through the provision of safe care. This is especially important in the context of the disruption of health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has further compounded the situation.
Sepsis is one of the biggest threats to patient safety worldwide, affecting 47 to 50 million people a year, many of them preventable. Therefore, the Global Sepsis Alliance wholeheartedly supports World Patient Safety Day and encourages you to participate.
#Uniteforsafecare Virtual Event
Our Friends from the Patient Safety Movement Foundation are hosting a free #Uniteforsafecare Virtual Event, happening today at 20:00h CEST.
About World Patient Safety Day
Recognizing patient safety as a global health priority, all 194 WHO Member States at the 72nd World Health Assembly, in May 2019, endorsed the establishment of World Patient Safety Day (Resolution WHA72.6), to be marked annually on 17 September. The objectives of World Patient Safety Day are to increase public awareness and engagement, enhance global understanding, and spur global solidarity and action to promote patient safety.