Minister Assures Nigerian Children Of Safety

As Nigeria joined the remainder of the satellite to commemorate the 2025 World Patient Safety Day connected Tuesday, the national authorities has reaffirmed its committedness to strengthening diligent safety, peculiarly for newborns and children.

At a property briefing successful Abuja, the coordinating curate of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali described kid information arsenic a motivation imperative and societal responsibility, noting that each kid deserves a harmless commencement successful life.

This year’s theme, declared by the World Health Organization (WHO), is “Safe Care for Every Newborn and Every Child” with the slogan “Patient Safety from the Start!”—a connection the curate said aligns with Nigeria’s wellness priorities.

“Newborns and children are among the astir susceptible members of our nine and merit the highest modular of care,” the curate stated. “Adverse events successful pediatric and neonatal attraction stay unacceptably high, with risks arsenic precocious arsenic 91 percent successful intensive attraction units and much than 50 percent successful wide pediatric wards.

These are not conscionable statistics; they correspond families whose lives person been affected by preventable harm.”

He outlined the campaign’s objectives to include, rise awareness, mobilise stakeholders, empower caregivers, and fortify probe to usher policies and interventions. According to him, Nigeria has made strides done maternal and kid wellness programmes, immunisation campaigns, and continuous grooming of wellness workers, but much effort is inactive needed.

In his invited remarks, the manager of Hospital Services, Dr. Jimoh Salaudeen, stressed that diligent information indispensable beryllium the starting constituent successful each aesculapian interventions. He highlighted the vulnerabilities of newborns and infants, noting that millions of patients worldwide inactive endure from preventable adverse events.

“‘Patient Safety from the Start’ is much than a slogan—it is simply a telephone to action,” Dr. Salaudeen said. “It demands evidence-based practices from the transportation room, stronger corruption power successful neonatal units, and treatments tailored to children’s evolving needs.”

As portion of activities starring to the commemoration, the ministry organized a method league with wellness experts, diligent information advocates, and policymakers to sermon champion practices successful pediatric and neonatal care. In addition, a roadworthy locomotion involving stakeholders—including WHO, the Federal Road Safety Corps, the media, and civilian nine groups was held to rise nationalist awareness.

Both officials called connected healthcare providers, parents, communities, and improvement partners to collaborate successful safeguarding the lives of children.

“No big was ne'er erstwhile a child,” Dr. Salaudeen reminded participants. “We are called to supply the utmost attraction particularly successful those archetypal 5 years and beyond.”

The Federal Ministry of Health assured that Nigeria remains afloat committed to the planetary question for diligent safety, pledging continued reforms to guarantee that nary kid suffers preventable harm.

The determination manager for Africa, World Health Organization, Dr Mohamed Janabi represented by Head, Patient Safety Desk, Dr Gilbert  Shetak stated that newborns and children look heightened risks from unsafe care, peculiarly successful intensive attraction units. “Alarmingly, mediocre prime attraction alternatively than deficiency of entree accounts for an estimated 60% of maternal deaths and 56% of neonatal deaths successful debased and mediate income countries. These are lives we tin and indispensable save,” helium said.