This year’s theme is Get it right, make it safe, and is aimed at highlighting the importance of correct and timely diagnosis of patients.

Locally, the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association of South Africa (IPASA) celebrated the day by calling on healthcare providers to improve how they relate to patients.

Bada Pharasi is IPASA Chief Executive Officer, “It’s intended to raise public awareness and bring about collaboration among everybody, in fact, patients, healthcare workers, policymakers and all other healthcare leaders. Everybody has to play a role, quite often we tend not to tell the whole story but then it really is up to the healthcare workers to ensure that the way they talk to the patient, the way they approach the patient, allows the patient to have complete trust in them and they can share with them everything that is related to whatever it is that brought them to health facility.”

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