SafeCare Country Director sets out four conditions for safer NCDs care

Speaking at the Ghana Health Service’s organized event to commemorate the World Patient Safety Day in Accra, the SafeCare Country Director, Bonifacia Benefo Agyei, cited a scenario of a woman diagnosed with hypertension in her forties, expecting to live with the condition for the next thirty to forty years, observing the hundreds of clinicians, prescriptions, repeated referrals and how she will often have to carry her own medical history in her memory, because her folder or medical information does not travel with her.

Participants of the event pose for a photo Reflecting on this year’s World Patient Safety Day, the SafeCare Country Director of PharmAccess, Bonifacia Benefo Agyei linked quality standards, outcome-based care, digital continuity and facility financing to a single test: whether people living with non-communicable diseases are measurably safer a year from now.

Benefo Agyei listed the four conditions to make patient safety and quality of care a daily reality; visible leadership, sustained investment, measurement that leads somewhere, patients as partners.