Medical And Legal Reasons Of Compulsory PCRTest Implementation in Covid-19 With Ethical Assessment

Abstract

COVID-19 disease, which emerged in December 2019, affected the world in a short time. A pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the increasing number of cases approximately 3 months after the first cases appeared. As every country has different strategic applications in the fight against disease, the disease has been dealt with thanks to the necessary interventions and measures since the fact that the facts have been observed in our country. The basis of the measures taken is to reduce the risk of transmission, rapid detection of the infected person and isolation measures. For this reason, PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) test is performed in early diagnosis and definitive diagnosis. However, whether the PCR test is applied to each individual, does not want to have the test performed, demanding another diagnostic method, etc. Situations such as are encountered. In this direction, it was aimed to evaluate the medical and legal justifications of PCR test in terms of ethics.