**1. Introduction**

Every profession has guidelines, rules and regulations guiding its practice, this is what ethics is all about. It has to do with the professional conduct of the practice of medicine including conducting research for the advancement of medicine and the making of new discoveries. One of the necessary aspects of human life is health [1] and it is the duty clinicians to care for the health needs of the populace [2]. Medical ethics has been from time immemorial. In medical education, medical ethics is taught at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels to equip a new graduate in the dental and medical profession. Clinicians' face various challenges in the course of their work some of which may have ethical issues, worst are when there is poor clinical state and death is anticipated [3]. Decision making on patients care is a critical responsibility of every physician practicing medicine [4]. Physicians who err in their practice may be tried by the medical council. Each national medical council has guidelines for erring doctors who derail in their practice of medicine. Medical councils have a panel of enquiry and disciplinary boards for doctors who do not practice medicine without the application of the medical ethics. Various disciplinary measures include apology to the patient, suspension from practice for a period of time, or the extreme of which is the permanent seizure of the medical practicing license and striking off the doctors' name from the medical practicing register. Due to the importance of ethics the World Health Organization in 2002 established an ethics team known as the global health ethics unit, a unit dedicated to ethics [5].

Through this ethics team, the World Health Organization works in close collaboration with the United Nations interagency committee, non-governmental organizations and other international organizations [5].
