San Marino. The delegation of the Bioethics Committee moving to Paris
“An acknowledgment regarding the part that will see the San Marino delegation of the Bioethics Committee of the Council of Europe go to Paris next September 20, to take experts to the small table of the part that will elaborate the drafting of the final equal access by all citizens to medicines and health care “.
This was announced in a press release from the State Secretariat for Health. “A reflection made necessary after the ethical problems that the Covid-19 pandemic has raised, concerning in particular the access of patients with disabilities or fragile subjects to treatment and vaccination. An issue on which the San Marino Bioethics Committee was the first to express itself at the level, reiterating already on March 16, 2020 as “the attribution of the priority of the treatments to be carried out and the victims to be addressed, taking into account, as the only choice step, the correct application of triage, respecting all human life, on the basis of the criteria of clinical appropriateness and proportionality of care “.
An opinion that has become international best practice following its recognition by the World Health Organization. A principle then reaffirmed in January 2021 by the Bioethics Committee of the Council of Europe, which members through a series of recommendations, drew the attention of States to access to treatment and vaccination by people in vulnerable situations.
Following this path, the Bioethics Committee of the Council of Europe itself wanted to draw up a document in recent months that sanctioned equal access by all to citizens and health care. In the plenary debate and in the subsequent phases of amendment of the text, the Commission could only recognize the value of the contributions of the San Marino delegation, which had extensively studied and examined the problem, also producing an extensive paper on the humanization of treatments during the pandemic. , published on 12 May 2021 by the San Marino Committee.
A reason for prestige for the small Republic, which then the final regulation applied and valid for all Member States “.