World Patient Safety Day 2019 in the South-East Asia Region

Overview

• Member States across the South-East Asia Region observed the first-ever World Patient Safety Day on 17 September 2019.
• Patients, health care providers and managers, policy-makers and leaders, academics, and other stakeholders participated in creative and informative events to discuss why and how to increase patient safety.
• This year’s slogan, “Speak up for patient safety!”, resonated at multiple events held across the Region.
• The Regional Director emphasized the importance of patient safety in her message, highlighting the burden of adverse events resulting from unsafe health care, especially in low- and middle-income countries, and strategic priorities for improving patient safety outcomes.
• The global World Patient Safety Day interactive map reflected almost fifty events in the South-East Asia Region.