COVID-19 Enfeksiyon Hastalığı Salgınına Biyoetik Açıdan Bakış

Enfeksiyon hastalıkları, hayvandan insana, insandan insana bulaşabilen, tanı konabilir, tedavi edilebilir, iyileştirilebilir ve önlenebilir hastalıklardır. İnsanlarda hastalık, sakatlık ve ölüme neden olabildiklerinden, enfeksiyon hastalıklarıyla mücadele önemlidir. Tıp ve bilim tarihi açısından bakıldığında, insanlık, enfeksiyon hastalıklarıyla mücadelede bağışıklama yöntemiyle önemli başarılar elde etmiştir. 2019 Aralık ayında Çin’de ilk kez saptanan yeni koronavirüs SARS-CoV-2 , COVID-19 adı verilen akut solunum yolu enfeksiyon hastalığına yol açmış; kısa sürede dünya üzerinde yayılarak pandemiye dönüşmüş, toplumsal ve ekonomik sorunlara yol açmıştır.Salgınla mücadelede bilimsel olarak ne yapmak gerektiğini anlamanın yanı sıra bu mücadelenin “nasıl” yapılacağının, hangi tutum ve davranışlarla yönetileceğinin, bir başka deyişle, meselenin etik boyutunun sorgulanmasına ihtiyaç vardır. COVID-19 salgını ile mücadelede, kanıta dayalı bilimsel, tıbbi müdahale sürerken; biyoetik açıdan, gelişmelerin açıklık, şeffaflık ve gerçekçilikle kamuoyuyla paylaşıldığı; herkese eşitlikle muamele edildiği, karantina ve izolasyon durumlarında kişi özerkliğinden, toplum sağlığı adına orantılı, ölçülü fedakarlık beklendiği; insanlar, hastaneler, birimler ve ülkeler arasında dayanışma ve işbirliğinin desteklendiği; hükümetlerin hesap verilebilirlikle halkın ihtiyaçlarına cevap verebildiği, iktisadi hayatın karşılıklı işbirliği ve dayanışma ile desteklendiği, insan haklarına ve onuruna uygun; insani, çoğulcu, çevreye, biyosfere, biyoçeşitliliğe, gelecek nesillere saygılı ve sorumlu tutum ve davranışlarla salgın yönetimi önerilir

A Bioethical Perspective For Covid-19 Infectious Disease Pandemic

Infectious diseases are major public health concerns as they cause deaths, disabilities, and provoke epidemics and pandemics. Although they are transmitted from animal to man, from man to man by pathogenic microorganisms, they are detectable, curable, and preventable diseases. Historically there have been significant scientific achievements whilst struggling with infectious diseases by means of immunization, such as smallpox, chickenpox vaccinations. As a matter of fact, the COVID-19 infectious disease which was caused by novel coronavirus SARSCoV-2 was first detectable in China in December 2019, and it soon triggered a global pandemic spreading most continents and countries world wide. As well as understanding what to do in scientific, medical, legal, economic, sociological aspects in the fight against the pandemic, there is a need to question “how” this struggle should be conducted. This takes us to analyze the ethical dimension of the issue, according to bioethics principles

Keywords:

Ethics, bioethics, public health, infectious diseases COVID-19 Pandemic,

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