Bahrain Quality Society holds lecture on medical blunders

Bahrain Quality Society (BQS) has organized a lecture which focused on safety health standards. BQS Honorary President Dr. Shaikh Mohammed bin Abdulla Al-Khalifa patronised the lecture which was held under the theme: "Patients’ Health Safety Quality Standards".
Health Quality Assurance expert Dr. Abdulla Ibrahim conducted the lecture, stressing the importance for hospitals and health facilities to enforce premium standards so as to avert medical blunders.
"Negligence and lack of health quality standards cause medical blunders which lead to the death of 44,000 patients worldwide – the equivalent of a disastrous passenger plane crash daily", he said.
Citing updated statistics conducted in the United States, Dr. Ibrahim said that medical blunders are considered the eighth top lethal cause, leaving thousands of fatalities in the world every year.
He stressed the importance of adopting acknowledged accreditation programmes to monitor medical mistakes at hospitals, scrutinize their causes so as to enhance clinical efficiency and promote patients and medication safety.
BQS Chairman Dr. Khalid Jassim Bumtea highlighted the crucial importance of the theme addressed in the lecture, stressing the role of quality standards in promoting health facilities and protecting people’s lives. "The World Health Organisation (WHO) statistics have revealed that one in ten patients falls victim to medical blunders", he said.