Keyword: "Patient safety"

Vietnam has made significant improvements in patient safety across all age groups, with its Ministry of Health having integrated patient safety into the national action plan on improving the medical service quality management capacity.

Hospital infections were becoming a common problem that required more focus from the healthcare sector, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said.

Health experts called for improving patient safety at medical facilities at a meeting held in Hanoi on September 17 by the Medical Services under the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation on the occasion of World Patient Safety Day (September 17).

Vinmec Medical System and the World Federation Of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) have signed an agreement to ensure the systems will conform to the Helsinki Declaration on patient safety in anaesthesiology.