Pakistan

WHO Pakistan commemorates World Patient Safety Day 2024

group photo - NEOC Pakistan; RD vaccinating a child and the delegation meeting with the PM - WHO/WHO Pakistan

23 September 2024 – To commemorate #WorldPatientSafetyDay2024, World Health Organization (WHO) Pakistan, in collaboration with the Ministry of National Health Services Regulations & Coordination, organized an awareness raising walk and advocacy seminar to foster collective efforts to improve diagnosis.

Representatives from WHO, Ministry of National Health Services Regulations & Coordination, the National Institute of Health, the private sector and academia participated in the walk carrying banners with the slogans #Improvingdiagnisisforpatientsafety, #Safehealthcarepractices and #Getitrightmakeitsafe!

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Events

1 September 2021 – The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with Pakistan's Drug Regulatory Authority and Expanded Programme on Immunization, recently organized a training workshop on strengthening pharmacovigilance, improving adverse...

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In focus

Cases of malaria, cholera, acute watery diarrhoeal disease and dengue continues to decline in most districts. Government plans are under way to reconstruct all 7878 health houses for lady health workers....

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