Article 37. Social and domestic services for persons with disabilities

Social and domestic services for persons with disabilities shall be provided by healthcare authorities, employment and labor relations agencies, charitable and other organizations with the participation of citizens' self-government bodies, and nongovernmental non-profit organizations, including public associations of persons with disabilities, and shall include the following types:

Counseling on issues of social protection and the provision of social services;

Referral to the appropriate agencies and organizations;

Assistance to persons with disabilities who are in need due to their health condition in establishing guardianship over them and monitoring the guardians' performance of their duties;

Assistance in obtaining prosthetic-orthopedic aids and technical rehabilitation devices;

Provision of free or discounted medications for persons with disabilities requiring nursing care;

Assistance to persons with disabilities in need of nursing care in the provision of free basic food and hygiene products, including cooking and cleaning of their homes, and hygiene.

If the employee has received a disability through the fault of the employer and needs nursing care, the employer shall be obliged to support at its own expense the person caring for the person with a disability for the duration of their disability – based on findings of medico-social expert commissions or pediatric medico-social commissions – and compensate the affected employee for the material damage caused and compensate for moral harm.