Medical errors “can’t be reduced to zero,” says Mohammad Aghajani, deputy minister of health for treatment However, in order to reduce the rate of physician errors, a new directive on patient safety including a specific checklist and implementation of guidelines has been sent to all hospitals. The number of medical errors in the country is not more than the global average. “On average, annually 3,000 medical errors occur in a 350-bed hospital in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region,” IRNA quoted him as saying. Social networks exaggerate the rate of medical errors, he claimed. “As a result, people visit several doctors to ensure the reliability of their test results.”
