Implementation of Safe Surgery Saves Lives initiative in Ahmed ...

Day by day, I really rediscovered my country, my people who have a great capacity and goodmanagement of resources.It was the happiest event to find that one of five cardiac surgeons in AGCC had participated inthe pilot study in Toronto in Canada. Now he is leading the implementation change among theAGCC staff and acting as a technical advisor for them. He is one of main factors to sustain thechange.Stage 3: EvaluationDespite that AGCC is not accredited hospital by any national or international organization; thereare valued local efforts to improve the quality of the services. There is a lot of improvementprocesses going on. Nevertheless, still there was no previous experience with a well-documentedchange project or improvement in AGCC.Generally, the project through extensive uses of quality tools create a new sense, increased thecommunications, and teamwork culture between the managers and clinical staff. Due to thenature of project itself, the project is introducing new cultures like leadership, management tools,and management practices to the surgery team such as communications, teamwork, riskmanagement, and systematic check with oral confirmation to the rest of team since everything isdocumented by the checklist.The evaluation of the long term impact such as mortality and morbidity is out of the scope of thispaper, but it is recommended to be done later.The main aim of the project which was implementing the WHO surgical safety checklist wassuccessfully achieved.50