ISSN: 2573-1734
Authors: Elshama SS*
The increasing spread of COVID-19 infection in the world led to emerging controversial medico-legal issues. These issues are varied wherein some of them are related to medical ethics and the relationship between physician and patient while others are related to medical responsibility and malpractice. In addition, there are medico-legal issues emerging related to the occupational hazards of COVID-19 infection in the workplace. However, accelerating efforts being done for securing treatment and vaccine leading to the breaching of known rules of the scientific research ethics are another medico-legal issue. Furthermore, the conduction of autopsy for COVID-19 cases creates controversial issue because of the survival period of the COVID -19 virus in different body samples after the death that is not determined until now. Therefore, the conduction of autopsy using the biosafety measures is recommended wherein autopsy has an important role in detecting pathological findings of COVID -19 infection that are still unknown.
Keywords: COVID-19; Issues; Medico-Legal
