2020, Number 4
Bioethics in times of pandemic
García-Solís E
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10.35366/99464
Language: Spanish
References: 6
Page: 183-184
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ABSTRACT
The current pandemic caused by the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan on December 2019, has propagated around the world. First Europe, posteriorly USA, and finally Latin America. It caused the collapse of health systems, mainly because the lack of ventilators, personal protection equipment, beds in ICUs and personal trained in critical care. The disease arrived in Mexico on February 23, 2020 and several measures have been implemented such as "healthy distance", frequent hand wash, and stay at home, this in order to flatten the curve with the purpose of saving lives. With the involvement of bioethics in the epidemic, we try to face the tensions and conflicts that arise from the clash between cultures, individual and collective interests. The protection of vulnerable groups must be highlighted. Health systems must be transformed and give impulse to initiatives that help ameliorate the exclusion, inequity and barriers to get the integral health interventions in a timely manner. This is a task everyone in the health system have.REFERENCES