Deputies in the first reading adopted the draft law on the liquidation of MSEK

In the first reading, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the draft law on the liquidation of medical and social expert commissions (MSEK). People’s deputy from the “Voice” faction Yaroslav Zheleznyak and deputy from the “European Solidarity” faction Oleksiy Goncharenko informed about this.

The bill was supported by 260 people’s deputies.

On November 1, the Cabinet of Ministers approved draft law No. 12178 “On amendments to some laws of Ukraine regarding the introduction of assessment of the daily functioning of a person”.

According to the document, from January 1, 2025, instead of the MSEK, expert teams for assessing the daily functioning of a person, consisting of practicing doctors, will work. They will work in multi-specialty hospitals equipped with everything necessary for assessment and additional examination, and will be able to work remotely or on-site as needed.

The new system will be digitized. The attending physician will be able to electronically refer the case for evaluation, and the results of the evaluation will automatically enter the Unified Information System of the Social Sphere for further steps in rehabilitation, assessment of work capacity and, if necessary, the appointment of state benefits, the Ministry of Health says.

It is assumed that the doctors will not know the name of the patient until the moment of evaluation, and the patient will not know the names of the doctors who will evaluate his functionality. This, the department believes, will rule out the possibility of previous corrupt agreements, “in particular, those that have recently become known.”

Earlier, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that the government, in accordance with the decisions of the NSDC and the president, approved a plan to counter corruption and other offenses among the MSEK.

On October 22, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, put into effect the decision of the National Security Council regarding the activities of the MSEC, which provides for the liquidation of the Medical and Social Commissions, the review of their decisions, and the reform of the MSEC system in Ukraine.

This meeting of the National Security Council and the corresponding decision were preceded by a number of reports about alleged abuses in the MSEC.