World Patient Safety Day Seychelles Patients Association praises, demands more patient safety efforts from all care providers |17 September 2021
On World Patient Safety Day on September 17, this year, Seychelles Patients Association commends the Health Care Agency, the largest health services provider in Seychelles, for its extraordinary efforts and success at keeping patients safe.
This commendation follows the way in which the Health Care Agency has handled cases of Covid-19 in its facilities this year.
“The agency handled the Covid-19 cases at the North East Point Home for the Elderly in March and the cases at the Seychelles Hospital later in the year, with exceptional professionalism and resolve. This resulted in minimal further health consequences to the patients,” noted the executive committee of the association.
“These success stories show clearly that there are remarkable structures and processes in place in key areas of the Health Care Agency to address patient safety,” says the executive committee of the association in its commendation.
The association has noted the extraordinary effort made to improve infection prevention and control throughout the agency but has called on the agency to strengthen any residual structure and process that may still pose a threat to patient safety.
“In these Covid times, any patient appointment or consultation denied or postponed is a serious concern for patient safety,” agreed members of the executive committee.
Although the international attention this year is on “safe maternal and newborn care”, Seychelles Patients Association wants to stress on the safety of all patients.
“Excellence in all areas of health care must become both the perpetual aspiration and method of all care providers in Seychelles,” stressed the association.
With the significant increase in private clinics, pharmacies, laboratories and private care homes in Seychelles, the association has called upon all the other care providers to invest as much time and physical resources as is required, to ensure patient safety, always and everywhere.
Contributed by the Seychelles Patients Association