In an interview, the President of the Hellenic Society of Forensic Medicine, Grigoris Leon, stresses the urgent need for state action in the management of medical errors.
“Based on recent statistics (Dec. 2017) from the EU patient alliance Health First Europe, we estimate that if we take action on medical errors, we could save 3.2 million days of hospitalisation and have 260,000 fewer cases of disability and 95,000 fewer deaths each year across the European Union,” Mr Leon said, among other things, speaking on Praktoreio FM and Tania Mantouvalou’s show “104.9 Health Secrets”.
The major problem arises mainly from the fact that we do not have a system for recording medical errors, Mr Leon explains.
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