16/09/2025
🧡 World Patient Safety Day is September 17
This year’s theme: “Safe care for every newborn and every child” with the slogan “Patient safety from the start!”
🔍 A bit of history:
World Patient Safety Day was established by the World Health Assembly in 2019 to make patient safety a global health priority.
Since then, every 17th September is a day when health systems, families, caregivers and clinics like Kiddiehealth pause to reflect on how to reduce harm in healthcare.
👶 Why 2025 is special:
The focus is on newborns and children up to nine years old because they are especially vulnerable to harm when care is not adapted to their needs.
Harm can come from many sources: medication errors, infections caught in care, misdiagnoses, or delayed recognition of warning signs.
The campaign encourages parents, health professionals, and communities to work together early “from the start” to build safer care systems.
✅ What you can do now:
📋 Ask questions: When your child sees a provider, ask about safety measures: infection prevention, allergies, dosage checks
🍼 For newborns and infants: Ensure vaccinations are on schedule; check that feeding and medication tools are clean and age appropriate
👂 Speak up if something doesn’t feel right; your concerns matter and help prevent harm
🏥 Choose care settings (clinics, hospitals) where staff are trained in pediatric specific safety
💚 At Kiddiehealth, we are committed to safe care from the start. Ensuring that every newborn and child in our care gets the thoughtful, calibrated attention they deserve.
📲 Reserve your child’s next well visit or check-up. Safety is at the heart of everything we do.
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