Hundreds of Doctors Request COVID Payments

If a medical worker is disabled due to COVID-19, he receives disability insurance, if he died, the family receives payments, Radutsky recalled.

732 medical workers have already contacted the Medical and Social Expert Commissions (MSEC) due to the coronavirus disease. This was announced on Thursday, October 8, by the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Health of the Nation, Mikhail Radutsky, on the air of the program Right to Power, reports RBC-Ukraine.

He clarified that we are talking about receiving payments for disability or death of a health worker due to coronavirus infection.

“To date, 732 healthcare workers have applied for MSEC,” Radutsky emphasized.

The chairman of the Health Committee of the Verkhovna Rada Nation recalled that the government decree of June 17, 2020 establishes payments to health workers in case of a group of disabilities due to the COVID-19 disease, which occurred during the performance of professional duties, 400 times the living wage for people with group I disabilities; 350 times the subsistence minimum for people with group II disabilities; 300 times the subsistence level for people with group III disabilities.

“In the event of the death of a medical worker, a payment of 750 times the minimum subsistence level will be made,” said the committee chairman.

Let us remember that the Ministry of Health has begun to prepare temporary hospitals for patients with coronavirus.

It was also reported that in September in Ukraine the number of hospitalized with COVID-19 increased by a third. More than 23,000 Ukrainians were transferred to hospitals in a month, of which more than 4,000 were treated in intensive care.

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