The IIHMR University Observes World Patient Safety Day
Drives an Awareness for Quality Management and Patient Safety in Hospitals
Jaipur, 9th December, 2014: Patient safety is a new healthcare discipline that emphasizes the reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error that often leads to adverse healthcare events. To converge this practice one of the globally recognized and leading healthcare research organizations' of the country, the IIHMR University, observed the World Patient Safety Day on 9th December, 2014. The University conducted an awareness campaign to spread the word amongst medical fraternity dealing directly with patients and their biggest threat worldwide on unsafe medical care.
Dr. S.D Gupta, President of IIHMR University said, "Patient Safety is of prime importance due to an increasing number of patient safety issues. Globally, more than 23 million years of healthy lives are lost every year, also known as Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) or the sum of years of potential life lost due to ill-health, disability or early death. According a recent research given by an Indian Doctor from the Harvard Public School about 43 million people are injured worldwide each year due to unsafe medical care. It has been identified that 234 million surgeries are conducted each year out of which the death rate is nearly 10% for major surgeries in developing countries."
At IIHMR Campus, nearly 100 students and 25 faculties and other staff members organised a human chain in a shape of Red Cross to create awareness amongst all the medical fraternities and hospitals to bring in the best possible healthcare facilities and safety models to reduce the number of injuries caused to the patients every year. Additionally, few students also shared their research on Patient Safety under various themes - Medication Safety, Safety Goals and Patient for Patient Safety.
It is found that about two-third of injuries and harm to the patients occurs in low-and-middle income countries especially in India. The number of DALYs lost has been more than twice as high in low-and-middle income countries that is about 15.5 million as it was in the high income countries which comprises of 7.2 million.
IIHMR University has been conducting a Management Development Program and WHO Fellowship Training Programmes on Patient Safety in Hospitals which highlights quality assurance and audit programmes reviews that have been adopted in various hospitals along with how care is delivered and compare it to a set of explicit criteria to determine whether standards are being met and how care can be improved.
About IIHMR:
Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) was established with a fundamental purpose of creating new knowledge and developing alternate modes of improving healthcare to management research, education and training in India and other parts of the world. The Institute has significantly contributed to the areas of health research management in the country and in South-East Asia Region. It has established a new paradigm of management of capacity development among healthcare professionals at the national, state and district levels in the areas of leadership, strategic management, and quality assurance in health care. The Institute works as a WHO Collaborating Centre for District Health Systems Based on Primary Healthcare since last one and a half decades.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, has designated the Institute as 'Institute of Excellence' for its contribution to capacity development programs in the health sector. The Post-graduate program in Hospital and Health Management, Pharmaceutical Management and Rural Management are the unique programs of IIHMR. Under the Society of Indian Institute of Health Management Research, the IIHMR group has created four campuses all over India. We proudly announce that IIHMR, Jaipur has now expanded into the IIHMR University. The IIHMR University will be the first of its kind Research University in the State of Rajasthan with an exclusive focus on management research, education and training in the health and related sectors.
The primary focus of the University is on Research and Post-graduate Education. With the establishment of IIHMR, Jaipur as the IIHMR University, the AICTE approved Post-graduate Courses offered at the Institute will be offered as MBA programs in the related disciplines. Besides these MBA programs, the University also plans to introduce doctoral programs. In this endeavor, the University introduced the first Ph.D. in Hospital and Health Management in February 2014. The IIHMR, Delhi and Bangalore campuses will offer the courses at its present status as AICTE approved post-graduate programs.
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