As public health professionals, we are often presented with ethical and moral dilemmas as they relate to the vulnerable populations that we serve. Develop an original case vignette on a public health concern in a chosen vulnerable population with an ethical or moral dilemma for your classmates to solve.
Case vignette :-
A severe motor vehicle accident took place in the Nh -16 street. All the memebers in the vehicle were shifted to the emergency department of a nearby hospital. The emergency was full of patients and staffs were providing interventions.
Meanwhile , there occurs a shortage for ventilator and two patients were sick and urgently needed resucuitative care . The two patients were - a 87 year old male retired bank manager and a 26 year old graduate male . A single ventilator from ICU is shifted for the shortage and according to the triage the physician decides to ventilate the young boy as he have many years to live ahead and based on his less severity of injury than the elder patient .
Now , the ethical dilemma is whom should we provide the care . According to morals ,we should provide care that both .
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