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Millions of people die each year from medical errors and infections linked to health care and going into a hospital is far riskier than flying, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, Reuters reports.

"If you were admitted to hospital tomorrow in any country...your chances of being subjected to an error in your care would be something like 1 in 10. Your chances of dying due to an error in health care would be 1 in 300," Liam Donaldson, the WHO's newly appointed envoy for patient safety, told a news briefing.

This compared with a risk of dying in an air crash of about 1 in 10 million passengers, according to Donaldson. "It shows that health care generally worldwide still has a long way to go," he said. （點擊路透社網站查看原文）

看醫生比坐飛機危險

???????據路透社報道，世界衛生組織周四披露，每年有數百萬人因醫療事故和醫護感染而死亡，去醫院比坐飛機風險高出許多。

???????世界衛生組織新任的病患安全特使利亞姆· 唐納森在新聞發布會上說：“如果明天你到任何國家的醫院就醫……你遭遇醫療事故的可能性約為1/10。你因醫護差錯死亡的幾率會是1/300。”

???????唐納森表示，因飛機失事而死亡的幾率僅為千萬分之一。他說：“這說明全世界的醫療行業都還有很長的路要走。”

(China.org.cn July 25, 2011)