Article 36. Social care for persons with disabilities

Social care for persons with disabilities shall be provided in the following forms:

Monetary payments (pensions, allowances, lump sum payments);

Provision with technical rehabilitation devices, surdotechnical, typhlo-technical or other aids, including wheelchairs, prosthetic-orthopedic aids, printed publications with special typefaces, sound-amplifying equipment and signalling devices, video materials with subtitles or sign-language interpretation, as well as vehicles;

Medical, social, vocational, and physical rehabilitation and domestic services;

Transportation services;

Provision of medicines.

Social care for persons with disabilities shall be rendered by local government bodies, healthcare authorities, public education bodies, and other state bodies based on findings of medico-social expert commissions.

Persons with disabilities who have partially or completely lost the ability to look after themselves and require permanent nursing care shall be provided with services for them at home and in specialized residential establishments in line with the procedure established by the legislation. In these establishments – along with the provision of social services – appropriate conditions for vital activities shall be ensured, medical services provided, as well as work activities and recreation organized.

Persons with disabilities who have suffered an occupational injury or occupational disease through the fault of their employer (regardless of the organizational and legal status of the organization) shall be provided – according to medical indications – with technical rehabilitation devices and special transportation means at the employer's expense.

Local government bodies shall have the right to establish additional social safeguards for persons with disabilities at the expense of the local budget.

Persons with disabilities shall have the right to free health-resort recovery, as well as the provision of medicines, medical devices for the care of persons with disabilities, and specialized therapeutic foods for children with disabilities.

The procedure for providing persons with disabilities with health-resort recovery and the list of medicines, medical devices for the care of persons with disabilities and specialized therapeutic foods for children with disabilities shall be determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.