For people living with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), patient safety extends far beyond what happens inside hospitals and clinics. Safety also depends on what happens between prevention, screening, diagnosis, medication, referral, follow-up, community and home.
In this special ISQua Africa Community of Practice (AfCOP) webinar for World Patient Safety Day 2026, we follow the journey of Amina, a 42-year-old market trader whose high blood pressure is identified during a community screening. Amina is screened. She is referred. She obtains medication. She eventually sees a clinician. Yet months later, after disappearing from follow-up, she experiences a stroke.
Through Amina’s story, our panellists will explore the patient-safety vulnerabilities that can emerge across the NCD care journey, including community screening and early detection, access to care, diagnostic safety, medication safety and reconciliation, health literacy and communication, continuity of care, and closed-loop referral systems.
Rather than asking only what went wrong when Amina had her stroke, this interactive conversation asks a more important question: When did the patient-safety risk actually begin? Together with our audience, we will consider how health systems, clinicians and communities across Africa can better connect detection with safe, accessible and continuous care—and identify realistic changes that could alter the trajectory for the next Amina.
Because in chronic disease care, no news is not necessarily good news. The question is whether anyone is listening for the silence.