The first meeting of the Committee on Social Policy and Healthcare in the autumn session

The first meeting of the Committee on Social Policy and Healthcare took place in the autumn session on the 14th of September. The agenda includes law-in-draft submitted to parliament by deputies of the relevant Committee.

Parliamentarians proposed supplementing the PMR Law “On social protection of persons with special needs” with a norm that would make it possible to provide disabled women of group III with breast prostheses and bras for their fastening at the expense of budgetary funds. Such a measure of state support applies only to women with disabilities of groups I and II. According to the authors of the law-in-draft, the reason for its development was the appeals of citizens.

The Committee on Social Policy and Healthcare will recommend that the parliamentary corps adopt the law-in-draft in two readings at once during one plenary meeting. If the draft law is adopted in final reading, the new norms may come into force as early as January 1, 2024. According to the Ministry of Healthcare, 270 women with group III disabilities will be able to take advantage of the right to receive free breast prostheses and bras to attach them if there are medical indications. It will be necessary to provide 428 thousand rubles for these purposes, when planning the law-in-draft “On the Republican Budget for 2024”.

Deputies discussed the legislative initiative of the Government to amend the PMR Law “On Immunoprevention of Infectious Diseases” in the first reading. The law-in-draft proposes to expand the Immunization Calendar for the population of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. It includes 11 preventive vaccines: against hepatitis B, diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus, tuberculosis, mumps, Haemophilus influenzae and pneumococcal infections. It is proposed to add two more vaccines to the list - against rotavirus infection and against human papillomavirus.

The inclusion of two new vaccines in the Immunization Calendar will not require additional expenses from the republican budget according to the authors of the law-in-draft. Immunization against rotavirus infection and human papillomavirus will be carried out at the expense of the state target program “Immunization of the population of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic for 2021-2025” within the approved funding limits.

The law-in-draft on amendments to the PMR Law “On Immunoprophylaxis of Infectious Diseases” will be included in the agenda of one of the next plenary meetings for consideration by the deputy corps in the first reading.