Question

In what ways do ethics and social responsibility integrates into the functions of a healthcare organization, especially now due to the COVID-19 pandemic? Explain your rationale.

Answer 1

Ethics and social responsibility integrate into the functions of a healthcare organization, especially now due to the COVID-19 pandemic because delivery of care for this disease requires extreme commitment to the profession as delivering care may mean putting one's life at risk as the disease is very infections. Thus upholding the medical ethical principle of beneficence becomes very tough.

Ethics and social responsibility integrate into the functions of a healthcare organization, especially now due to the COVID-19 pandemic because delivery of care for this disease requires extreme commitment to the profession as delivering care may mean putting one's life at risk as the disease is very infections. Thus upholding the medical ethical principle of beneficence becomes very tough. Further we have to ensure that the environment is perfectly sanitized and disinfected to stop the spread of this disease in the healthcare organization and thus upholding the medical ethical principle of non-maleficence becomes tough. Further it is the social responsibility of the providers to generate awareness about this disease and ways to prevent it such as maintaining social distance, avowing contact with a diseased person