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Doctors' ethical dilemma: Save the young or seniors?

Doctors’ ethical dilemma: Save the young or seniors?
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But some doctors look at the treatment path. The only criteria between an old and a young patient would be who is the sicker of the two, said Dr Smitha Thimmaiah, medical superintendent, Sparsh Hospital, Mysore Road.
PTI
Besides age, the patient’s class matters as hospitals get multiple calls if s/he is from an influential background.
(This story originally appeared in
on May 11, 2021)With an increasing demand for ICU beds and ventilators, clinicians are facing an ethical dilemma over allotment of beds: Young breadwinners or senior citizens? The focus is certainly more on saving the youngsters, multiple hospital authorities told TOI on the condition of anonymity. ....

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Doctors' ethical dilemma: Save the young or seniors? | Bengaluru News

Besides age, the patient’s class matters as they get multiple calls if s/he is from an influential background.
With resource crunch, NGOs helping several critical patients find a bed admit they do make a choice. “If the Covid patient is young and the only breadwinner of the family, we do make our best attempts to help find a bed,” says Mohammed Ismail, a volunteer working with Emergency Response Team of Mercy Mission.
“On April 30, we received a request from the family of a 32-yearold man, whose oxygen saturation level was 70% and the private hospital where he was had no ventilator for him. His parents had died the previous day and his pregnant wife had gone for their cremation. We had to speak to several MLAs, officers to get him a bed and he was finally shifted to Victoria Hospital,” Ismail said. The priority goes for a young breadwinner of the family, pregnant women in need of ICU beds, he added. ....

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