MOPH of Qatar Launches A National Medication Safety Program
Date : 30 July 2023
Venue : Doha, Qatar
The Ministry of Public Health of Qatar is
working on developing and implementing a national medication safety
program, in cooperation with the WHO Office in Qatar and the Regional Office
for the Eastern Mediterranean, with the participation of all stakeholders from
the health and academic sectors in addition to the pharmaceutical
manufacturing sector as well as patient representatives.
The program aims to develop a national plan for
a medication safety program, which is one of the important projects
within the second national health strategy 201-8-2022, and the third national
health strategy. The program also aims to identify priorities and gaps with
regard to medication safety systems and practices, in line
with the "Medication Without Harm" challenge launched by the
World Health Organization in 2017, which is one of the global challenges
launched by WHO for patient safety. These kinds of programs are essentially
change-driven programs aimed at introducing improvements and reducing risks in
health systems. It is worth mentioning that the State of Qatar has pledged to
participate in the implementation of the third challenge by signing the pledge
document with the World Health Organization. The "Medication Without
Harm" challenge aims to reduce the harms caused by unsafe practices and
errors in the use of medication, by focusing on improving medication safety and
strengthening the systems necessary to reduce the incidence of errors in the
field and the resulting harms that can be avoided by 50% over the next five
years.
