Disabled children are offered to give free vouchers to sanatoriums, regardless of the disease. As Izvestia found out, such a bill will be submitted to the State Duma in the near future.
As stated in the explanatory note to the bill, which is at the disposal of Izvestia, only children with diseases such as asthma, cholelithiasis, diseases of the musculoskeletal system can go to the sanatorium.
However, disabled children with mental disabilities are not included in the list for which spa treatment is indicated.
“Currently, disabled children with mental disabilities (autism, Down syndrome, mental retardation, etc.) who have a concomitant disease, for example, asthma, are not eligible for such treatment,” the explanatory note to the bill says. , which is available to Izvestia.
The document also emphasizes that asthma in this case in these children is classified not as a primary, but as a concomitant disease.
“It should be noted that concomitant diseases in children with mental disabilities exacerbate the effect of limiting their life activity, and therefore such children are in dire need of sanatorium treatment,” the authors note.
Therefore, they propose to amend Art. 6.2 of the Law “On State Social Assistance”, so that such disabled children can receive vouchers to sanatoriums not only for the main, but also for concomitant diseases.
According to the financial and economic justification for the bill, no additional funds will be required for these purposes.
As Sergei Leonov, one of the initiators of the document, explained to Izvestiya, all disabled children are federal beneficiaries who are entitled to vouchers to sanatoriums at the expense of the social insurance fund.
“Accordingly, additional money will not be needed, these children will simply be in a general queue waiting for sanatorium treatment, that is, in fact, no more money will be needed,” the deputy explained.
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