The President of Ukraine signed the law №11225 regarding the improvement of medical and social examination procedures. It specified in the document card.
On November 1, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft law “On Amendments to Some Laws of Ukraine Regarding the Implementation of Assessment of the Daily Functioning of a Person.”
According to the document, from January 1, 2025, instead of the MSEK, expert teams for assessing the daily functioning of a person, consisting of practicing doctors, will work. They will work in multi-specialty hospitals equipped with everything necessary for assessment and additional examination, and will be able to work remotely or on-site as needed.
The new system will be digitized. The doctor will be able to send a case for evaluation electronically, and the results of the evaluation will automatically enter the Unified Information System of the Social Sphere for further steps in rehabilitation, assessment of work capacity and, if necessary, the appointment of state benefits, the Ministry of Health says.
It is assumed that the doctors will not know the name of the patient until the moment of evaluation, and the patient will not know the names of the doctors who will evaluate his functionality. This, the department believes, will rule out the possibility of previous corrupt agreements, “in particular, those that have recently become known.”
Earlier, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that the government, in accordance with the decisions of the National Security Council and the President, approved a plan to combat corruption and other offenses among the MSEK.
On October 22, Volodymyr Zelenskyi put into effect the decision of the NSDC regarding the activities of the MSEC, which provides for the liquidation of the Medical and Social Commissions, the review of their decisions, and the reform of the MSEC system in Ukraine.
This meeting of the National Security Council and the corresponding decision were preceded by a number of reports about alleged abuses in the MSEC.
