Realigning Pakistan's Bioethics Center during Covid‐19

The arrival of the Covid‐19 pandemic in Pakistan necessitated that the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture in Karachi realign its activities to changing realities in the country. As Pakistan's only bioethics center, and with no guidelines available for allocation of scarce medical resources...

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Published in:Hastings Center Report 2020-05, Vol.50 (3), p.8-9
Main Authors: Moazam, Farhat, Jafarey, Aamir
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Betacoronavirus
Bioethical Issues
Bioethics
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Covid narratives
COVID-19
Covid‐19 guidelines
Decision Making
Developing Countries
Humans
Pakistan - epidemiology
Pakistan and bioethics
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Practice Guidelines as Topic
SARS-CoV-2
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Summary:The arrival of the Covid‐19 pandemic in Pakistan necessitated that the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture in Karachi realign its activities to changing realities in the country. As Pakistan's only bioethics center, and with no guidelines available for allocation of scarce medical resources, CBEC developed “Guidelines for Ethical Healthcare Decision‐Making in Pakistan” with input from medical and civil society stakeholders. The CBEC blog connected to the center's bioethics programs for students from Pakistan and Kenya shifted to Covid‐related issues specific to the context of existing social and political realities within these countries. As part of its outreach activities, CBEC initiated a popular Facebook series, #HumansofCovid, as an experience‐sharing platform for health care professionals and members of the public. Narratives received vary from those by frustrated physicians under quarantine to those concerning street vendors left jobless and a transsexual person in whose opinion “social distancing” is not a new phenomenon for their communities.
ISSN:0093-0334
1552-146X
DOI:10.1002/hast.1120