Dr Weru, palliative medicine physician at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi and some of his colleagues write that the Covid-19 pandemic has raised some critically important ethical challenges as an initial health crisis soon became an economic crisis leading to lockdown measures across Kenya. However, it is healthcare professionals who have been most affected by the ethical issues raised. Covid-19 has brought questions on how feasible existing guidelines, policies and internationally accepted standards are for us to serve the Kenyan population at large.