During World Patient Safety Day Symposium 2025, held at the Aga Khan University in Kenya, healthcare experts and policymakers have called for urgent action to make healthcare safer for newborns and children to prevent newborn and children’s deaths. They have warned that unsafe care has continued to cause preventable harm in maternity wards, neonatal units and paediatric settings, exposing children to preventable deaths. This year’s theme, “Safe Care from the Start: Preventing Harm in Neonatal and Paediatric Care,” highlights the vulnerability of newborns and children to risks and harm caused by unsafe care from the healthcare givers. “This year’s theme speaks directly to the heart of our healthcare mission: to protect, to nurture, and to ensure that every child’s journey in life is safe, healthy, and full of potential. This is to ensure that a child in a remote village receives the same standard of care as the child in an urban hospital,” Public Health PS Mary Muthoni said.