Roundtable on Safe Surgery

17 September 2019, Geneva, Switzerland – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations International Computing Center (UNICC) and the Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC) are partnering to promote a new mobile application for the WHO’s Surgical Safety Checklist, which is destined to facilitate its use among healthcare professionals. The dissemination of the mobile feature is enhanced through a video that aims of raising awareness of the Checklist’s importance and added value.

The mobile application and awareness video were launched as part of the first official World Patient Safety Day on September 17th 2019, which brought together attendees from all stakeholder organizations, as well as prominent members of the healthcare world.