The document discusses strategies and objectives for ensuring safe surgery based on World Health Organization guidelines. It aims to reduce surgical deaths worldwide by strengthening safety measures, implementing safe anesthetic techniques, preventing surgical infections, and optimizing communication among surgical teams. It outlines essential objectives like performing the correct procedure on the correct patient, preventing anesthetic risks and pain, managing difficult airways and major bleeding, avoiding allergic reactions and adverse drug effects, and minimizing surgical site infections. It also provides a checklist for surgical safety with phases for entry, pause before incision, exit, and follow up to minimize common and preventable risks.