Protection of the rights and freedoms of patients of the medical and labor dispensary

The Supreme Court of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic submitted amendments and additions to the Civil Procedure Code and the law “On the social rehabilitation of patients with chronic alcoholism, drug addiction or substance abuse” for consideration by the deputies. They will affect the regulation of the procedure for considering cases on sending citizens to a medical and labor dispensary, on changing the terms of stay in such institutions, as well as on early release.

First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Elena Polozova noted at the plenary session that not a single law in Pridnestrovie regulates these aspects. Having studied the experience of the CIS countries, the Supreme Court found that at present, medical and labor dispensaries have been preserved only in Belarus and Turkmenistan. The procedure for considering cases of citizens who are sent to a medical and labor dispensary is regulated by the Civil Procedure Code in the legislations of both countries. It was decided in our republic to follow the same path.

Work on the law-in-draft will be continued in the second reading. As for the current situation, the vice-speaker of the parliament noted lately, that we have increasingly been sent to labor dispensaries for treatment for such diseases as alcoholism, drug addiction, substance abuse. There are two medical and labor dispensaries in the republic now – women's and men's. 12 patients are being treated in the women's one, and more than 20 in the men's one.