Attendance an online digital event on Feb. 01, 2024 entitled “Ethics of Sustainable Healthcare”. The event was offered by International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). 

Description: There has been a new rise in consciousness within the pharmacy career to exercise in an environmentally sustainable pattern. This is connected with the emergence of worry with respect to climate alteration. Sustainability is more than environmental awareness. Sustainable development needs keeping all three pillars of sustainability: environmental, economic, and social. 

Universal spending on healthcare is rising more quickly than the universal economy, now accounting for 10% of universal gross domestic product (GDP). The WHO observes that this is of special concern in low- and middle-income nations where health care costs are elevating more quickly than in high-income nations. As public money funds most of healthcare expenditure, this provides rise to ethical worries with respect to global equality and access in the provision of health care to people.

Sustainability has been further depicted in the Brundtland report as “meet(ing) the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” (United Nations, 1987).

The session supplied a chance to talk about ethical considerations regarding sustainable provision of healthcare for present and future generations.

Moderator:

- Betty Chaar, Associate Professor. The University of Sydney, Australia.

- Carl Schneider, Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice. The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia.

Panellists:

- Cicely Roche, Associate Professor in Practice of Pharmacy (One day - generally Thursday) & Fellow in Education for Sustainable Development (Three days - generally MTW), Ireland.

- Sharon Pfleger,Professor Consultant in Pharmaceutical Public Health NHS Highland, United Kingdom.

- Sanya Ram, Senior Lecturer Auckland University, New Zealand.