WHO: Speak up for Patient Safety (September 2019)

Summary

No one should be harmed while receiving healthcare. And yet globally, at least five patients die every minute because of unsafe care. The World Health Organization (WHO) will focus global attention on patient safety and launch a campaign in solidarity with patients on the very first World Patient Safety Day on 17 September 2019. Watch the WHO Director General’s statement calling for patients, healthcare workers, policy makers to “Speak up for Patient Safety!”.