To mark their collaborative commitment of providing better safety for patients during surgical procedures, members of multi-stakeholder institutions, medical groups, and advocate organizations gathered in a press conference Friday at Taguig City to discuss the patients’ full surgical journey, to make surgeries safer, and save more lives. In photo are (from left) Dr. Alejandro Dizon, president, Philippine College of Surgeons; Dr. Erlinda Oracion, Clinical Quality director, The Medical City; Dr. Claudia Rafanan, chairman of the Anesthesia Department, Chong Hua Hospital in Cebu; Maria Fatima ‘Girlie’ Garcia Lorenzo, president of the Philippine Alliance of Patient Organizations; and Charisse Abriz, Anesthesia product manager, MSD in the Philippines.