{"id":96788,"date":"2019-09-29T00:03:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T07:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/five-patients-die-every-minute-from-incorrect-medical-treatment-according-to-the-world-health-organization"},"modified":"2019-09-29T13:24:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T20:24:44","slug":"five-patients-die-every-minute-from-incorrect-medical-treatment-according-to-the-world-health-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/five-patients-die-every-minute-from-incorrect-medical-treatment-according-to-the-world-health-organization","title":{"rendered":"Five patients die every minute from incorrect medical treatment, according to the World Health Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/five-patients-die-every-minute-from-incorrect-medical-treatment-according-to-the-world-health-organization.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>A recent report by the World Health Organization (WHO) claims 2.6 million people die every year in middle and low-income countries from incorrect medical care.<\/li>\n<li>The report, which was published before the first-ever World Patient Safety Day on September 17, reveals that five people die every minute from incorrect medical care.<\/li>\n<li> The health agency says the most common errors occur in diagnosis, prescription and use of medicines and that the deaths are completely preventable.<\/li>\n<li> The cost of prescribing the wrong medication alone is $42 billion a year.<\/li>\n<li>Visit Business Insider\u2019s homepage for more stories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every year, 2.6 million people die in middle and low-income countries because of incorrect medical care, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/13-09-2019-who-calls-for-urgent-action-to-reduce-patient-harm-in-healthcare\"> according to a recent report published by the World Health Organization (WHO)<\/a>. The health agency is hoping to shed light on the issue by launching a campaign in solidarity with patients on the first-ever World Patient Safety Day on September 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one should be harmed while receiving health care. And yet globally, at least 5 patients die every minute because of unsafe care,\u201d said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report by the World Health Organization (WHO) claims 2.6 million people die every year in middle and low-income countries from incorrect medical care. The report, which was published before the first-ever World Patient Safety Day on September 17, reveals that five people die every minute from incorrect medical care. The health agency says [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96805,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96788\/revisions\/96805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}