The World Health Organisation WHO has called for urgent action to combat patient harm, which causes millions of preventable deaths annually.
The WHO, also called on countries to increase their investments and efforts toward reducing patient harm.
Information gathered from WHO official website reveals that millions of patients are harmed each year due to unsafe health care worldwide.
As part of this campaign, the organisation said it will host the first-ever World Patient Safety Day September 17.
The United Nations agency said that the situation results in 2.6 million, mostly avoidable deaths, annually in low-and middle-income countries alone.
According to WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, no one should be harmed while receiving health care.
WHO
says that four out of every ten patients are harmed during primary and
ambulatory health care, adding that the most detrimental errors are related to
diagnosis, prescription and the use of medicines.
