There were 10 alerts last year at the Monash Health Centre (Daily Mail photo)
More than 120 patients in Victoria have died or caused serious injuries as a result of medical malpractice.
According to the Daily Mail, medical accident data at state hospitals are open to the public for the first time at a time when state agencies are struggling to improve health standards. These have occurred in the past two years of patient deaths due to medical errors and administrative errors and so on.
These incidents are known as "alarm incidents" (Sentinel event), state hospitals have been mandatory to record.
The report found that the Monash Health Center (Monash Health) had 10 alerts last year, Melbourne Health Center (Melbourne Health) 9, Eastern Health Center (Eastern Health) 7, and charity hospital (Mercy Hospital) 4.
In one incident, a patient died after being given the wrong dose of medication by a nurse. It is reported that the wrong injection dose is 10 times as much as the prescription dose.
In another incident, colonoscopy, which could save the lives of three cancer patients, had been severely delayed due to "administrative errors", leading to a serious deterioration in the condition of the three patients when they were discovered.
Other accidents include the death of the patient due to the wrong site of the doctor`s operation and the forgetting of medical equipment in the patient`s body.
Although the current medical accident data is quite alarming, Victoria Shadow Health Director Woodridge (Mary Wooldridge) said there may be more unrecorded incidents.
The problem of hospital underreporting is so serious that more needs to be done to ensure that the hospital can report accidents quickly.
The state safety care (Safer Care Victoria) plans to impose stricter regulatory policies on hospital underreporting, and the number of reported incidents is expected to rise further next year.
Professor Wallace (Prof. Euan Wallace), chief executive of security care in Victoria, said the more transparent the hospital, the better it would be. (he Rong)
