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Medical Ethics and Pandemics in a Low- and Middle-Income Country-what is the Fate of the Health Worker who Render Neurosurgical Services? - The Nigeria Example?

Authors: MORGAN Eghosa

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: Open Access Journal Of Neurology & Neurosurgery

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The world is currently facing ravaging pandemic of novel coronavirus with imminent collapse of health services, economic activities
and widespread loss of lives with surgical services somewhat on the suspense. The low- and middle-income countries are faced with huge
infrastructure deficit, poor or non-existing efficient and effective health care services and a rampaging situation of brain drain of trained health
care providers to the developed world leaving a huge gap on health care delivery which is presently been compounded by coronavirus. Medical
ethics guide the practice of neurosurgery and it bring the core of morality in the practice of safe health care delivery culminating in better
surgical outcome. These health workers who are surgeons have the responsibility to ensure they, their families and community are safe within a
morally acceptable precinct while in the forefront of service delivery in this pandemic, but there exists a situation where neurosurgeons are being
asked to ensure ethical standards without the adequate tools as commonly seen in poor countries. There must be a balance between ensuring
ethical standards are followed and also ensuring that those in frontline are safe from being a victim of the societal failure. Infrastructural deficit
in the low- and middle-income countries like Nigeria have direct correlation with the level of corruption in the polity. A recent publication
by Bloomberg [1] highlighted the level of neglect, infrastructural deficit in which the article deride Nigeria leaders are being trapped in their
countries with no standard health facilities and have nowhere to run to as many nations facing the coronavirus pandemic have barred them from
accessing their health facilities with embargo on land, water and air travels

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MORGAN,E. . (2020). Medical Ethics and Pandemics in a Low- and Middle-Income Country-what is the Fate of the Health Worker who Render Neurosurgical Services? - The Nigeria Example?, 14 (), 72-72.

MORGAN,E. . "Medical Ethics and Pandemics in a Low- and Middle-Income Country-what is the Fate of the Health Worker who Render Neurosurgical Services? - The Nigeria Example?" 14, no (), (2020): 72-72.

MORGAN,E. and . (2020). Medical Ethics and Pandemics in a Low- and Middle-Income Country-what is the Fate of the Health Worker who Render Neurosurgical Services? - The Nigeria Example?, 14 (), pp72-72.

MORGANE, . Medical Ethics and Pandemics in a Low- and Middle-Income Country-what is the Fate of the Health Worker who Render Neurosurgical Services? - The Nigeria Example?. 2020, 14 ():72-72.

MORGAN,Eghosa , . "Medical Ethics and Pandemics in a Low- and Middle-Income Country-what is the Fate of the Health Worker who Render Neurosurgical Services? - The Nigeria Example?", 14 . (2020) : 72-72.

M.Eghosa , "Medical Ethics and Pandemics in a Low- and Middle-Income Country-what is the Fate of the Health Worker who Render Neurosurgical Services? - The Nigeria Example?" vol.14, no., pp. 72-72, 2020.

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