Why should safety be the heart of modern health care

Every day, millions of people put their lives in the hands of health care providers. They walk to hospitals expect healing, not harm. However, medical errors remain one of the main causes of death worldwide, a realistic fact that challenges the basis of medicine: “First, do not harm.”

Despite the dedication of doctors and caregivers, patient safety is still a silent crisis. It is time to give us attention – and the procedure – is worthy of.

Hidden epidemic: preventive damage to health care

According to a comprehensive Ticket Posted in BmjMedical errors may be responsible for up to 250,000 deaths annually in the United States alone, making them the third main cause of death after heart disease and cancer. World Health Organization (from) Estimates One in ten patients is damaged while receiving hospital care in high -income countries, with nearly half of these preventive accidents.

These are not just numbers, they represent mothers, fathers, children and friends who have suffered complications, learned unnecessary actions, or lost their lives because of the mistakes that could have been avoided. Among the errors of the drug inaccuracy to unsafe surgeries and infections, the risks are widespread, and the risks are devastating.

Regular gaps: the issue of culture, not efficiency

Contrary to excitement of misconduct accounts, most medical errors are not the result of incompetence. It is normal by its nature, resulting from the collapse of communications, the outdated protocols, the lack of employees, exhaustion, and the absence of unified safety practices. Healthcare professionals often work in an ecosystem that often gives priority to speed and size to reflect and vigilant.

What is required is not just better trained doctors, but betterly designed systems. Safety in the DNA of health care institutions should be woven, through strong reporting mechanisms, safety lists, open, and more wicked detection policies, a culture that appreciates learning to blame.

Call in work: Patient Safety Movement Foundation

With the realization that the current situation was costing a lot of lives, he founded the creator of business and medical technology Joe Kayani Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) in 2012. With an ambitious and developed mission about man-Zero deaths that can be prevented by 2030-PPSMF has allies of health care providers, policy makers, patients and families to defend transparent data -based solutions.

What distinguishes the Foundation is its commitment to the safety of patient safety (APSS)-Protocols-based protocols that hospitals can adopt to improve safety through a wide range of high-risk areas, from the integrity of opioid materials and management of poisoning to mother and night care. PSMF also enhances open data pledge, and encouraging health care technology companies to share data that can illuminate, get rid of, risk.

Its impact is clear: Through alliance and educational building initiatives, PSMF helped stimulate the real world’s improvements in hundreds of health care facilities around the world.

Safety as a human right, not a privilege

In essence, the safety of patients is not a technical goal – it is an ethical inevitable. Health care should be safe like flying in a plane or driving a car, however we accepted much greater risk in our hospitals than ever in our sky or streets.

We must reformulate the safety of patients not as an addition or a later idea, but as an inaccurate corner of good care. This requires investment, leadership and cultural change – not only from health care institutions but from organizers, insurance companies and governments. Patients and families require a seat on the table, authorized to speak without fear of judgment or separation.

The road forward

There is no silver bullet – but there is a clear path. We know what success: transparency, communication, thinking and accountability. We know that when healthcare professionals are supported instead of blame it, when the data is shared instead of getting rid of them, and when patients are heard instead of ignoring them, lives are rescued.

In a world that spends trillion on medical innovation, we owe ourselves – and for every patient who enters a hospital in the hope of recovery – to make safety our most urgent priority.

The Patient Safety Movement Foundation also reminds us: Every patient who deserves safe care, every time. Nothing less should be acceptable.