The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted various healthcare systems across the world. Most countries were not prepared for such a demand for medical supplies, obligating many health professionals into difficult ethical decisions about rationing these resources. Decisions about how to allocate medical resources in situations of scarcity are both emotionally and ethically challenging. Across the world, various bioethical committees have provided guidelines on how to decide whom to save in such circumstances.1 The majority of theories and practices of rationing are life-based approaches.2 Examples include natural lifespan, fair innings and complete lives egalitarianism; such theories tend to prescribe that saving the young, those ones with the health condition that means they are most likely to survive, and to save the highest number of lives ought to be the focus of rationing decisions.3 In this article, we wish to offer a different perspective, one that not only relies on a distinct ethical theory, but also has different implications from the theories on rationing previously considered. We address, from an African relational point of

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在大流行时期进行配给的关系方法

COVID-19 大流行对世界各地的各种医疗保健系统产生了重大影响。大多数国家都没有为这种对医疗用品的需求做好准备，这迫使许多卫生专业人员在配给这些资源方面做出艰难的道德决定。在稀缺的情况下如何分配医疗资源的决定在情感和道德上都具有挑战性。在世界各地，各种生物伦理委员会都提供了关于如何决定在这种情况下拯救谁的指南。1 配给的大多数理论和实践都是基于生命的方法。2 例子包括自然寿命、公平局和完整的生命平均主义；这些理论倾向于规定拯救年轻人，那些健康状况意味着他们最有可能生存的人，并且拯救最多的生命应该是配给决策的重点。 3 在本文中，我们希望提供一个不同的视角，它不仅依赖于一种独特的伦理理论，而且与以前考虑的配给。我们从非洲关系的角度解决