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Recognizing the safety of patients with one of the global health priorities, in May 2019, at the seventy-second session of the World Health Assembly, all 194-member states approved a proposal to establish World Safety Day of patients, which will be celebrated annually on September 17. The goals of the World Safety Day of patients are to increase the awareness and expansion of the public participation, deepen the global understanding of the problem and stimulate global joint actions to improve the safety of patients.
About 810 women dies daily from preventive causes associated with pregnancy and childbirth. In addition, about 6700 newborns die every day, which is 47% of all cases of death of children under the age of 5 years. In addition to this, about 2 million cases of stillbirth are recorded every year, and more than 40% – directly during childbirth. Taking into account the significant burden of risks and the harm that women and newborn as a result of unsafe medical care is subject to, which is aggravated by interruptions in the work of the main medical services in the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemia, this year this campaign is even more important.
Fortunately, in most cases of stillbirths and deaths of mothers and newborns, one can avoid by providing safe and high -quality assistance to qualified medical workers, for which favorable working conditions have been created. But this can only be achieved by attracting all interested parties and creating complex systems and approaches in the field of healthcare at the community level.
World Patient Security Day was established in 2019 in order to deepen a global understanding of the safety of patients, expand the public participation in ensuring the safe provision of medical care and promoting global efforts aimed at improving patients' safety and reducing harm caused to patients.
World Patient Security Days
- Increase the knowledge of the world community about the problem of the safety of mothers and newborns, especially during childbirth.
- To ensure the participation of a wide range of interested parties and accept effective and innovative strategies aimed at improving the safety of mothers and newborns.
- To call on all interested parties to urgent and systematic actions in the interests of covering the medical help of those who do not have access to it, and to ensure the safe provision of medical care to mothers and newborns, especially during childbirth.
- To advocate the implementation of advanced practice in places of medical care in order to reduce preventive risks and prevent harm to all women and newborn during childbirth.
