Author:
Shah Aarati,Aacharya Ramesh Prasad
Abstract
Pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 is the largest of its kind of this century. All countries throughout theglobe are trying their best to contain the disease and eliminate at the earliest. Efforts are continuingto improve the outcome of the infection in terms of minimizing the morbidity and mortality. As apublic health strategy every state has the responsibility of protecting the health of the communityand such measures includes the preventive measures like social distancing or even lockdown ofthe state as a whole restricting the movement of the people, diagnostic measures like testing thesuspects, contact tracing and isolation of the patients. Treatment of the infected requires decisionsin resource constraint situation particularly ICU beds and ventilators. In the meantime, protectingdoctors, nurses, other health workers as well as frontline workers need personal protective equipmentwhich is a scarce commodity. While doing so there might be a compromise in the individualautonomy, privacy, confidentiality, and social justice for the beneficence for the larger community.This is an attempt to explore the ethical quandaries in relation to combating COVID-19 in Nepal byrelating the issues with the principles of biomedical ethics.
Publisher
Journal of Nepal Medical Association (JNMA)
Cited by
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