THE RIGHT TO HEALTHCARE IN THE ERA OF COVID-19: FROM RIGOR TO DEBATE

Abstract

The article considers the operation of legal and ethical standards ensuring the availability of medical care in the situation of COVID-19. It presents a brief history of the emergence and consolidation the right to access to medical care at the international and international levels, shows how this right has acquired a universal character and has come to be interpreted as one of the fundamental human rights. Next, the main ethical models that currently exist in the field of medicine are highlighted: the ethics of care and the ethics of justice, then it is considered how these models entered into a state of intense dialogue in the context of COVID-19. It also determines how these models are related to the ethics of medical care in emergency situations during a pandemic. The study ends with an overview of the specifics of the implementation of the right to access to medical care during the pandemic in the Republic of Belarus.