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2 In low and middle-income countries, the impact is about twice as much in terms of the number of years of healthy life lost.

15 Similarly, in the USA, medication errors caused the death of about 7000 patients and about 400,000 cases of avoidable patient harm per year, which cost US ($)3.5 billion. 13 Moreover, in 2018, a British report on the prevalence and burden of medication errors estimated the occurrence of 237 million medication errors at all stages of medication administration, 14 and in Finland 700 to 1700 people died each year from medication-related errors. 10–12 In 2017, World Health Organization reported that the annual global cost associated with medication errors has been estimated to reach US ($) 42 billion accounting for 0.7% of the total health expenditure. Globally, medication errors are leading causes of different injuries and avoidable harms in the health care system attributing to about 10% of the overall preventable harm for hospitalized patients. 6–9 Health workers committed medication administration errors during the processes of ordering, prescribing, dispensing, preparing, or administration. 3–5 Errors in medication administration can occur through failures in any of the ten rights which are right patient, right medication, right time, right dose, right route, right education/advice, rights to refuse, right assessment, right evaluation/response, and documentation. 1, 2 It affects human relationships, threatens trust in the healthcare system as a whole, and can also destroy life. MAE is any preventable act that contributes to the failure of proper medication use in the treatment process resulting in harm for the patient to the extent of disability and death.