World Patient Safety Day became honored globally on September 17, 2021. The subject matter this year became “Safe Maternal and Newborn Care”. Mothers and their newborns have and remain exposed to dangers and harm while the care provided earlier than and in the course of childbirth is unsafe.

Although there was a little progress, demanding situations continue to be for Malaysia in achieving the goals of Sustainable Development Goal 3, that is to “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. This has been compounded through the Covid-19 pandemic, which has brought about disrupted important maternal fitness care offerings because of elements that encompass the effect of Covid-19 on being pregnant, women’s incapability to get right of entry to care, disrupted delivery chains, and diversion of skilled expert maternity staff for the care of Covid-19 patients. Furthermore, the extent to which maternal care has been suffering from gender equity and violence troubles consequent to Covid-19 have nonetheless to be elucidated in Malaysia. The reports of women in the course of being pregnant and childbirth have the ability to both empower or to purpose harm and emotional trauma. The slogan for the 2021 campaign, “Act now for safe and respectful childbirth” is an exhortation to all stakeholders to ensure that all women are provided care that is safe and respectful not only during childbirth but also antenatally.

All health care specialists make choices primarily based totally on evidence. The extra facts they have, the higher the choices can be for the recipients of care. This is in particular so with Covid-19, with which facts continue to be evolving. It is going with out announcing that such facts can be helpful withinside the provision of secure and fine take care of mothers-to-be and their newborns. The World Health Assembly (WHA) followed a resolution, “Protecting, safeguarding and investing in the health and care body of workers”, on May 28. The WHA called for action “to guarantee that investments in our workforce make sure they are skilled, trained, equipped, supported, and enabled. It stresses the need for decent pay, recognition, a safe working environment, and protection in their rights”.

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