Disbandment of Ukraine’s Medical and Social Assessment Boards: Health Minister explains who will carry out assessments
Pravda Ukraine
As of 1 January 2025, Ukraine’s Medical and Social Assessment Boards (MSABs) will cease their activities as separate legal entities, and their functions will be transferred to cluster and supra-cluster hospitals.
Source: Minister of Health Viktor Liashko during a briefing on 23 October, quoted by Ukrinform
Details: The Health Minister also said that he believes members of the boards’ administration should not be able to move to senior administrative positions in other hospitals in the future.
Previously: On 22 October, after a meeting of the National Security and Defence Council, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a decree that all Medical and Social Assessment Boards in Ukraine should be disbanded by 31 December 2024.
In an evening address, Zelenskyy said that for real change to take place, all stages of the process for establishing disability must be fully digitalised.
Background:
- Back in May 2023, Health Minister Viktor Liashko said that MSABs would cease to exist from 1 January 2025.
- Recently, there have been a number of high-profile revelations of corruption in MSABs in different oblasts of Ukraine.
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