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The right to health and its situation in the context of the co-vid-19 pandemic in Ecuador

Abstract:

Ecuador, through its constitutional regulations, guarantees the enjoyment of the right to health; but, with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became evident that these regulations were never complied with within the territory, and, on the contrary, were ignored; thus, the present research is of vital importance to know the degree of violation of the aforementioned right. The objective is to analyze the situation of the right to health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador; in its develo-pment, an exploratory research approach based on the interpretative method was executed, which allowed the collection of the necessary information based on the thematic; thus concluding that the poor management of the pandemic by the corresponding authorities and the omission of both national and international norms in relation to the right to health allowed the collapse of the State’s Health System.