Obtaining informed consent for Cesarean sections in Bangladesh

Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 29 (4):119-125 (2019)
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Abstract

Primary and secondary level hospitals are yet to introduce an informed consent procedure before performing cesarean sections in Bangladesh. There is no standard informed consent practice in the tertiary level healthcare institutions and hospitals. This study argues that the existing informed consent practice before performing cesarean section in most of the tertiary level hospitals can be regarded merely as consent rather than informed consent. The private hospitals and clinics usually provide so-called informed consent forms. Majority of these hospitals and clinics consider the informed consent as an institutional procedure rather than ethical procedure; and they use the informed consent form as a safeguard if there is any trouble concerning the safety of patient. This study concludes that informed consent in true sense needs to be practiced in cesarean sections. Obtaining informed consent may provide moral confidence to the physicians and inspire them to become ethical physicians. At the same time, it will create such awareness among them so that they realize a major surgery like cesarean section cannot be performed without the proper informed consent of the mother.

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