Let's speak for Patient Safety in India

Authors

  • Om Prakash Kansal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2017.v29i03.001

Abstract

As if the fire episode in a major hospital in 2011 in Kolkata was not enough, another fire episode was recorded in West Bengal tertiary hospital end August. Recently, a colleague undertaking infection control audit was led into an operating theatre with blood stained slippers and only face mask, when the surgery was on. The onset of hepatitis B and hepatitis C epidemics due to reuse of syringes and needles hit the regional headlines in Haryana and Srinagar in 2012 and 2015 respectively.

 Worldwide, adverse events occur in around 10% of hospital patients. Individual studies have reported adverse events from 4–17% of hospital admissions and 5–21% of these adverse events result in death. In low- and middle-income countries, adverse events may develop from unsafe care in as many as 18.4% of patients, with 30% of those events leading to the patient's death. Medical literature often reports the incidence of health care acquired infections which the patient may not have when s/he walks in the hospital. The evidence also suggests that half of these can be prevented easily just by investing a minor fraction of the budgets while planning the healthcare. In India, almost all states are facing this challenge irrespective how robust the health care delivery system has developed.

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Published

2017-09-30

How to Cite

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Kansal OP. Let’s speak for Patient Safety in India. Indian J Community Health [Internet]. 2017 Sep. 30 [cited 2024 Mar. 29];29(3):213-4. Available from: https://iapsmupuk.org/journal/index.php/IJCH/article/view/750

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Editorial