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​​​​Seventh FMIC Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Convention​

​​​Celebrating everyday leadership

November 4, 2017

Deputy Ministry of Public Health Dr Feda Mohammad Paikan

The French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children (FMIC) held the Seventh Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Convention on Saturday, November 4, 2017. The convention coincided with “World Quality Day” which was introduced in 1990 by the Chartered Quality Institute to increase awareness of the important contribution that quality makes towards both organizational, as well as national growth and prosperity. The day celebrated the achievements of those who demonstrate leadership to sustain and improve performance every day.FMIC, the first ISO certified hospital in Afghanistan has focused on quality improvement and patient safety issues amongst healthcare professionals in Afghanistan since its inception and continues to raise awareness around this. The theme for this year’s convention was ‘Celebrating Everyday Leadership’ reflecting upon the importance of effective leadership in the successful delivery of quality and safe patient care, which is relevant to the “World Quality Day”. 

Quality service delivery professionals at all levels display leadership behaviors from advocacy to fact-based thinking. Through the event, the FMIC celebrated everyday leaders who exhibit the values of a quality profession and perform their duties with a commitment to strive for and to promote a culture of excellence along with a passion for continuous improvement in the healthcare system.

Dr. Feda Mohamad Paikan, Deputy Minister of Public Health addressed the convention and expressed his appreciation for FMIC’s commitment in promoting quality and patient safety culture in healthcare. He added that improving healthcare system in Afghanistan is a priority for the Government of Afghanistan and in particular emphasized that “effective leadership is critical in reducing the risk of failures in healthcare service provision.”

Despite the recognition of quality and safety threats associated with healthcare, little is known about the rate of preventable patient harm in developing countries in Southeast Asia or about the quality of healthcare. World Health Organization suggests that in developing and transitioning countries the presence of preventable adverse events is similar to that in other health systems internationally.​

Chairman, Provisional Operating Committee of FMIC, Mr Lee Hilling underlining FMIC’s commitment to quality care said, “As healthcare professionals we all are leaders and we have an obligation to ensure that the healthcare system is as effective and efficient as it can be in order to minimize harm, and to ensure that it is sustainable for our communities and our future. 

Dr Eric Cheysson, President of La Chaîne de l’Espoir, congratulated FMIC management for conducting an event of an international standard.He said: “La Chaine de l’Espoir, is committed to support FMIC initiatives to deliver quality health services by sharing with them best practices through contribution of long and short term medical missions.” 

In his concluding remark​s, Mr Nadeem Mustafa Khan, Senior Advisor to the President of the Aga Khan University, urged the FMIC to continue to move towards achieving the common vision that the four partners set together. He also committed that AKU would support FMIC in its efforts to provide quality healthcare. 

The convention brought together approximately 200 healthcare professionals from Kabul to discuss quality issues in healthcare and proposed solutions. A total of 16 quality projects were presented on a wide range of quality related issues of public and private healthcare settings in Afghanistan. 

Note: The French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children, the first ISO certified hospital in Kabul, offers high quality care and medical education in the quest to build a sustainable healthcare system for Afghanistan. Since 2006, FMIC has carried out 2,000 plus paediatric cardiac surgeries, served over 3 million child and adult patients, trained 700 medical professionals, and employ 95 per cent Afghan staff. FMIC performs over 55,000 radiology procedures and over 300,000 laboratory tests annually. FMIC has also introduced Adult Cardiac Surgery Services along with a Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory (Cath-lab) which will significantly assist the Ministry of Public Health in improving the health indicators in Afghanistan. The hospital will soon begin providing obstetrical and gynaecological services with the opening of its new 52-bed, 96,000-square-foot Women’s Wing which also includes a 14-bed neonatal intensive care unit, the first in Afghanistan.  As a not-for-profit hospital, FMIC is running through an innovative partnership between the Governments of Afghanistan and France, the Aga Khan University part of the Aga Khan Development Network and the French NGO, La Chaîne de l’Espoir.

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For More Information, Please Contact:

Sultaan Masud Alkozai
French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children
Tel:   +93(0) 79 107 5701 
Cell:   +93(0) 794 794 841 ​
Email: sultaanmasud.alkozai@fmic.org.af​ ​