Chairman of the Milli Majlis Health Committee Ahliman Amiraslanov said while opening a scheduled online committee meeting on 8 April that its agenda comprised eight Bills containing amendments related to the string of acts pursuant to the presidential decree dated 20 December 2018 and aimed to ensure the implementation of compulsory medical insurance in the Azerbaijan Republic.

Informing the gathering of the six documents at issue, Head of the Social Legislation Department of the Milli Majlis Staff Adil Aliyev mentioned that they contained draft amendments to fifty laws put together. Several Bills lined up for enactment are concerned with the execution of the powers of TƏBİB subject to the already-mentioned presidential decree. Most of the draft amendments to as many as 131 legal articles envisage a clear division of the powers in health care and operation of treatment and prophylactic institutions between the appropriate central executive authority and the pertaining public legal entity regardless of the latter’s ownership type and form of incorporation. Hence, the terms ‘body’ and ‘the Health care bodies’ are to be replaced with the wording ‘the body (institution) assigned by the appropriate executive authority’; also, the expression ‘health care’ is to be replaced with the word ‘medicine’ throughout the Bill.

The Committee members Soltan Mammadov, Rashad Mahmudov, Sadagat Valiyeva, Malahat Ibrahimghizi, Kamila Aliyeva and Kamaladdin Gafarov voiced their ideas about the billed drafts.

In the end, the Committee members recommended that the documents listed below should be tabled for consideration at a plenum of the Milli Majlis:

The draft amendments to the Forest, Labour, Family, Criminal, Tax, Criminal Procedure and Administrative Offences codes;

The draft amendments to the laws ‘On the Status of the military personnel’, ‘On Indexing the Monetary Incomes and Deposits of the Citizens of the Azerbaijan Republic’, ‘On the Sanitary-Epidemiological Well-Being’, ‘On the status and Social Protection of the Chernobyl Disaster Liquidators with Damaged Health’, ‘On the Protection of the Population’s Health’ and ‘On the Service and Civilian Arms’;

The draft amendments to the laws ‘On the Motor Traffic’, ‘On the Status of Refugees and Forced (Internally) Displaced Persons’, ‘On Tourism’, ‘On the National Archive Fund’, ‘On the Status of the Municipalities’, ‘On Private Medical Practice’, ‘On the Immunoprophylaxis of Communicable Diseases’, ‘On the Action against Tuberculosis in the Azerbaijan Republic’. ‘On the (Special) Education for Persons with Health Limitations’, ‘On the Youth Policy’ and ‘On the Environmental Education and Enlightenment of the Population’;

The draft amendments to the Garrison and Guard Service Charter of the Armed Forces of the Azerbaijan Republic (the Law No 886 dated 23 September 1994), the Internal Service Charter of the Armed Forces of the Azerbaijan Republic (the Law No 887 dated 27 September 1994), the Military Service Performance Regulation (the Law No 377-IQ dated 3 October 1997), the Provisions on the Special Documents of the Not Naturalised Permanent Residents of the Azerbaijan Republic (the Law No 421-IQ dated 30 December 1997), the Customs Authority Service Regulation (the Law No 768-IQ dated 7 December 1999) and the Regulations on the Commissions for Adolescents’ Cases and for the Protection of the Adolescents’ Rights (the Law No 336-IIQ dated 31 May 2002);

The draft amendments (the first reading) to the laws ‘On the State Care of Diabetes Mellitus Patients’, ‘On Blood and Blood Component Donation, and the Blood Service’, ‘On the Prevention of Neglect of Adolescents and of Juvenile Offences’, ‘On the Azerbaijani Red Crescent Society’, ‘On the Apiary Sector’, ‘On the Social Adaptation of Persons Relieved of Penitentiary Sentence Service’, ‘On Education’, ‘On Physical Education and Sports’, ‘On Cession of Lands for State Needs’, ‘On Countering the Diseases Caused by the HIV’ and ‘On the Prevention of Household Violence’;

And, last but not least, the draft amendments (the first reading) to the laws ‘On the State Care of Multiple Sclerosis Patients’, ‘On the Protection of the Rights and Liberties of Persons Held in Detention Facilities’, ‘On the Protection of Green Spaces’, ‘On the Compulsory Clinical Examination of Children’, ‘On Limiting the Consumption of Tobacco Goods’, ‘On Vocational Education’, ‘On the Rights of Disabled Persons’, ‘On the Psychological Aid’ and ‘On General Education’.

The Health Committee member Mushfig Mammadli and other officials took part in the meeting as well.

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