a cooperation agreement.
With the empowerment unit at King Abdulaziz University. The Health Empowerment and Health Rights Unit at the College of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University today signed a cooperation agreement with the Saudi Patient Safety Center, with the aim of promoting a culture of health empowerment and spreading health rights for the sake of patient safety.
The founder and head of the Health Empowerment Unit, Professor Samia Al-Amoudi explained that this agreement will help integrate the actors in this field that aims to spread health rights to protect patients from complications and deaths, especially with regard to women and their health rights, noting that this human rights initiative will address many of the affairs of the lady. The pregnant woman from the beginning of pregnancy and pregnancy care programs, her right to early checks for her safety and the safety of the fetus and her right to consent to cesarean sections and other interventions, which will affect the rates of patients and maternal deaths.
For his part, the Dean of the College of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, Dr. Mahmoud Shaheen Al-Ahwal, stated that this is the first unit of its kind in the medical colleges in the Kingdom, stressing that they seek to be a model that can be generalized in the rest of the medical colleges.
In turn, the Director General of the Saudi Patient Safety Center, Dr. Abd al-Ilah Muhammad Rabi al-Hawsawi, indicated that the Patient Safety Center, the Walid Center, was launched a few weeks ago under the patronage of His Excellency the Minister of Health, Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah, pointing out that they are seeking to establish partnerships with entities that help spread awareness of human rights culture among health practitioners And the general society carried out by the Health Empowerment Unit, and its reflection on reducing medical errors and improving services for patient safety, which is one of the objectives of the Patient Safety Center.
It is worth noting that a new initiative of its kind was launched in conjunction with the signing of the agreement, which is the "Health Rights Initiative for Pregnant Mothers", the slogan of which is "We protect your health rights for your safety."
