Why it is in the news
On 18 September 2026 the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced that it had commemorated World Patient Safety Day 2026 at the NIHFW auditorium in New Delhi, built around the World Health Organization theme “Safe Care for Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs)” and the slogan “Safe care for life!”.
The exam angle
Issue: India’s patient-safety and quality-assurance machinery was built for episodic, acute, maternal-and-infection-centred care, while the disease burden has moved to chronic NCDs that demand a different kind of quality — continuity, recall and uninterrupted drug supply. The question is whether facility certification can produce that.