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September 16, 2019
TheWorld Health Organisation WHO has called for urgent action to combat patientharm, which causes millions of preventable deaths annually.
TheWHO, also called on countries to increase their investments and efforts towardreducing patient harm.
Informationgathered from WHO official website reveals that millions of patients are harmedeach year due to unsafe health care worldwide.
Aspart of this campaign, the organisation said it will host the first-ever WorldPatient Safety Day September 17.
TheUnited Nations agency said that the situation results in 2.6 million, mostlyavoidable deaths, annually in low-and middle-income countries alone.
Accordingto WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, no one should be harmedwhile receiving health care.
WHOsays that four out of every ten patients are harmed during primary andambulatory health care, adding that the most detrimental errors are related todiagnosis, prescription and the use of medicines.