Unit Semester 2, 2020 XXXXXXXXXXBMGT3001 Governance and Business Ethics Assessment Type Presentation Assessment Number 1 Assessment Name Group Work Unit Learning Outcomes Assessed LO 1 and LO 3...

Deontological Ethical Dilemma and Covid19 Pandemic Out
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Deontological Ethical Dilemma and Covid19 Pandemic Out
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A case Study of Italian Medical System
Introduction
The objective of ethical decision making is to make sure that ethics are at play whenever there is some sort of dilemma.
In fact, ethical dilemma put the condition forward to prefer right out of wrong or at times, to choose between what is right or wrong.
In modern context, understanding these dilemmas is one of the major challenges.
Corporate governance is basically a part of the overall organizational culture and ethical dilemmas play pivotal role in setting up the principles of moral philosophy. In this context, analyzing the dilemma and ensuring the right decision is taken is one of the major challenges that organizations has to take. Italian medical system went through such typical condition during covid19 pandemic out
eak; the medical experts had to save younger ones from this fatal disease by prefe
ing them for cure over older generation.
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Introduction Contd.
There are several factors which organizations take up for processing good governance.
Considering ethical theories like conventionalism and deontological approaches are some of such theories that help in determining ethical dilemmas.
Recently, the case of Covid19 pandemic out
eak and its effect over Italian medical system could prove that the medical system of the nation went through ethical dilemma about saving lives.
In fact, Covid19 hit Italy badly; after China, the virus had taken up whole Italian population and in spite of having one of the strongest and the most effective medical system in the world, Italian medical system felt helpless due to the extremely rapid nature of infection of Covid19.
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History and Relevance of the Case
At first, it is important to examine the case of Covid19 and how it could hit Italy so badly that the whole nation suffered under its impact.
Covid19 is allegedly said to be spread from the fish market of Wuhan in China.
The virus had initial flu symptoms given to the people and due to the nature of spreading like flu, it became deadly at global scale.
After China, the virus took international attention when it began spreading into other nations and Italy became the second target. Covid19 reached to the common Italian masses very easily; most of the cases seen at initial level in Italy were due to the fact that Italian workers in China or the tourists who had returned from there. By coming into contact of each other, Covid19 simply became a general but still, very fatal issue to the Italian population.
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Relevance Contd.
In 2020, the Covid19 pandemic out
eak is the biggest social, political and economical scenario which the modern world has gone through.
The virus and its nature both are unknown to the medical science; the process of cure is conventional but it is not effective on integrated level.
The national governments are collaborated at global level to understand its genome and they are trying hard to make its vaccine.
Since Fe
uary 2020, the pandemic out
eak of Covid19 has
oken the economical, political and social structure at global level. Human population, especially the old ones, is at stake due to the fatal impacts it gives to them. Thus, the relevance of this virus and its impact study is one of the major ethical dilemmas which the nations have gone through—or they are going through even now—in terms of prefe
ing whom to save and whom to be left to die.
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A Brief History of the Organization
The selected case study belongs to the pandemic out
eak of Covid19 in Italy.
The Italian Healthcare System was founded in 1978 and since them, several reforms and amendments in the healthcare policy of the nation has made it one of the most effective system in the world.
The Italian National Health Service, INHS, covers all Italian citizens by giving them various kinds of insurance coverage that is legally valid to secure the rights of good treatment at any age.
The key operational actors consist of 21 Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) and approximately 200 Local Health Authorities (LHAs) which serve geographical zones with mean populations of about 300,000. Together, they are responsible for ensuring the delivery of healthcare services by means of public and private accredited hospitals and other...