Over 2.24 trln soums and US$225m spent to programme “The Year of attention and care about elder generation”
16/01/2016 13:14
Over 2.24 trln soums and US$225m spent to programme “The Year of attention and care about elder generation”
16/01/2016 13:14
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- About 2.246 trillion soums and over US$225 million were spent to implementation of measures of the state programme “The Year of attention and care about elder generation”, the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov said at the session of the Cabinet of Ministers dedicated to the results of 2015.
He said that Uzbekistan paid attention to implementation of the state programme “The Year of attention and care about elder generation”.
All ministries and departments, public organizations were attracted to its implementation to take care about all elder people.
According to the Uzbek President, more than 215,000 elder people have passed free medical examination in 2015. Needy persons with disabilities have the opportunity to receive more than 11,000 prosthetic and orthopedic products and technical means of rehabilitation of high quality.
About 70,000 veterans were covered by the medical examination and rehabilitation in hospital and sanatorium establishments. All elder people Uzbekistan at the age of over 100 years, are receiving special allowance at the same of one minimum salary to their pension, Islam Karimov said.
In addition, from 1 September 2015, Uzbekistan introduced a new list of basic food and hygiene products, which is provided to single persons and persons with disabilities in need of constant care, President recalled.
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