Oral Presentations Abstracts: ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE ROMANIAN PHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Lucia Maria RUS; Simona Codruța HEGHEȘ; Adela CACOVEAN; Ligia Ancuța HUI; Alina UIFĂLEAN; Cristina Adela IUGA

doi:10.24193/subbbioethica.2021.spiss.99

Authors

Lucia Maria RUS Associate Professor, “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.E-mail: lucia.rus@umfcluj.ro
Simona Codruța HEGHEȘ “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Adela CACOVEAN County Emergency Clinical Hospital, Târgu-Mureș, Romania
Ligia Ancuța HUI Municipal Clinical Hospital, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Alina UIFĂLEAN “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Cristina Adela IUGA “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbbioethica.2021.spiss.99

Abstract

View of Volume 66, Special Issue, September 2021

COVID-19 infection is a disease caused by the new type Coronaviruses family strain, SARS-CoV-2. It was first identified in China’s Wuhan City in December 2019. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared the public health emergency with COVID-19 a pandemic. As in the other affected countries, Romania’s health care professionals are on the front line. Among them, community pharmacy and clinical pharmacy teams are facing special ethical situations related to issues as: the provision of protective equipment, sudden medicines price rises, a general increased need in pharmaceutical services of the population concerned about COVID-19, a possible shortage of drugs due to the cessation of their import, ensuring on-going provision of pharmaceutical services in the case of significant volumes of staff absences.