The Committee on Public Health, Medical Assistance and Medical Insurance recommends to the Verkhovna Rada adopts as a basis and in general the draft Law on social protection of medical workers affected by COVID-19 of health care facilities of all forms of ownership

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
08 November 2021, 14:19

 The Committee on Public Health, Medical Assistance and Medical Insurance considered the draft Law on social protection of medical workers affected by COVID-19 of health care facilities of all forms of ownership (№ 6192).

The draft Law on social protection of medical workers affected by COVID-19 health care facilities of all forms of ownership proposes to extend the provisions of the Law "On Protection of the Population from Infectious Diseases" on insurance benefits in the event of disability or death due to infection with coronavirus COVID-19 in the workplace, medical workers of private health care facilities and employees, as well as medical workers who work as self-employed persons.

In addition, it is proposed to renew the right of health workers of private health care facilities or their relatives, if they have not yet received adequate insurance benefits due to a gap in the legislation.

The Committee decided to recommend to the Verkhovna Rada to include the draft Law in the agenda of the session and, based on the results of the consideration in the first reading, to adopt it as a basis and in general.