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Covid‐19: Emerging Considerations for Body Sourcing and Handling. A Perspective View from Nigeria
Author(s) -
Okafor Izuchukwu Azuka,
Chia Terkuma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
anatomical sciences education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.126
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1935-9780
pISSN - 1935-9772
DOI - 10.1002/ase.2047
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , economic shortage , personal protective equipment , global health , business , perspective (graphical) , public relations , environmental health , economic growth , medicine , political science , public health , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , pathology , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , government (linguistics) , computer science
The current Coronavirus disease (Covid‐19) pandemic has spread to about 220 countries of the world and has resulted in a significant number of deaths globally. Infections are still on the rise, and the impact on the global death rate could be devastating. There are fears over the likely impact of a large number of deaths on body sourcing and handling of cadavers for teaching and research. Historically, epidemics come with several challenges and have often led to some level of negligence of ethical practices and health and safety regulations associated with body sourcing and handling. The authors highlighted some emerging problems in this article, focusing on Africa and Nigeria in particular. These problems include a higher risk of coronavirus exposure for body handlers, shortage of cadavers for teaching and learning, a lack of standard regulations leading to unethical body sourcing and handling, and a lack of monitoring and collaboration needed for a well‐coordinated Covid‐19 pandemic response strategy. If these issues are ignored, the previous gains made in anatomical ethical practices may be destroyed. Some useful recommendations for policymaking geared toward prevention or curtailing these emerging issues have been instilled in this article.