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Hospital Mistakes Rise in Australia, Posing Serious Danger for the Public
More than 1.5 million Australians experience problems with their medications annually, resulting in 400,000 visits to GPs, 140,000 admissions to hospitals and 'significant' costs.
Each year 200,000 Australians get infections such as golden staph associated with their treatment.
The figures are from Windows into Safety and Quality in Health Care 2008, a report issued yesterday by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
The commission's chief executive, Professor Chris Baggoley, said there were clearly ''safety challenges in health care.'
'It would be nice to think that health care would be trouble-free but even ... our own illnesses are complex.
'What we need to do is take advantage of [the] best systems to improve that.'
Health departments report so-called 'sentinel events' where procedures are performed on the wrong patient or body part, an inpatient commits suicide or patients need a second operation to remove instruments or material left inside their bodies during the first operation.
Other sentinel events are when babies are sent home with the wrong family, women die or suffer serious complications during childbirth, patients are given the wrong blood type or they die because of medication errors or gas embolisms in their blood vessels.
In 2006-07, public hospitals recorded 257 sentinel events almost 120 more than the figure for 2005-06.
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Kumar Banik(Guest)
11/19/2008
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Greetings to you. We are some young enterprenuer thinking about to export efficient nurses to first world countries considering the demand of skilled nurses. We are taking decision giving qulity and modern training to passed nurses from goverment nursess training centre and already working in different govt. or public hospital for making sutibale to work in Austrila, UK, USA and other European countries.
For increasing efficiency of nurses of Bangladesh, we want to make them competent about speaking english fluently and giving training according to curriculum of different nursing training institute of first World country so that they can acquire qualification to work that place.
If we make them qualified is it possible to be employed them in your hospital? Please inform us which qualifications are needed to be worked in that case.
Please feel free if you have any suggession or opinion about this concern. We are waiting for your response.
Thanking you
Kumar Banik