THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR ENSURING INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY.
ALERT AND RESPONSE IN CASE OF EPIDEMIC
THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR ENSURING INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY.
ALERT AND RESPONSE IN CASE OF EPIDEMIC
Author(s): Lucian Chiriac, Sonia Bianca COMANSubject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law
Published by: Editura University Press, Universitatea de Medicina, Farmacie, Stiinte si Tehnologie “George Emil Palade” din Targu Mures
Keywords: safety; health; pandemic; legislative framework; measures; prevention;
Summary/Abstract: The adoption of the International Health Regulations in 2005 at the 58th World Health Assembly, a real code in this area, involved the subsequent adoption of legal rules in its application for the protection of public health, respecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens and also public order at international and national level.Taking measures to prevent and combat pandemics should have been the main task, proportionate to the situation which gave rise to them, limited in time and applied in a non-discriminatory manner, without affecting fundamental rights and freedoms in one way or another. Today's global health crisis requires legal, economic, health and social measures to combat the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, and, why not, to prevent such situations in the future. The only certainty we have at this moment is that humanity is not prepared to respond effectively and promptly to the spread of the disastrous effects of such infectious eruptions. Many of the measures adopted proved to be meaningless, without legal, medical, social or economic basis. Furthermore, we believe that law must be manifested not as an adjunct to the health system, but as a "weapon of destruction" to ensure the democratic framework needed to fight this war, either on the front lines or behind the front.The authors of the paper find it appropriate to understand that the general public interest requires the adoption of normative measures, even exceptional ones, in order to be able to intervene operatively and with adequate means for crisis management. But, it turned out that the lack of a flexible, combative regulatory framework, based on a factual and informative reality, in the absence of an action plan, we will have only a phenomenon of rejection, of refusal by citizens to participate at this common goal
Journal: Curentul Juridic
- Issue Year: 83/2020
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 88-98
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English