Medical and social expertise in the Almaty region

One of the activities of the Department is to conduct a medical and social examination for the presence or absence of disability, to determine the disability group, the degree of loss of general and/or professional ability to work, to determine the necessary rehabilitation measures with the development of the social and/or professional part of an individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person.
Medical and social expertise is the determination in accordance with the established procedure of the needs of the examined person in social protection measures, based on an assessment of the limitations of vital activity caused by a persistent disorder of body functions.
The departments of medical and social expertise perform the following functions:
1) conduct a medical and social examination of citizens on the basis of an assessment of the limitations of vital activity caused by a persistent disorder of body functions.
2) develops individual rehabilitation programs for the disabled, including determining the types, forms, timing and scope of measures for social and vocational rehabilitation;
3) establishes disability (group, causes, duration of disability);
4) determines the degree of loss of professional ability to work (as a percentage);
5) determines the degree of loss of general working capacity (as a percentage);
6) determines the need for victims of industrial accidents and occupational diseases in social and vocational rehabilitation;
7) provides citizens undergoing medical and social expertise with explanations on issues of medical and social expertise;
8) organizes and conducts field meetings of specialists of MSE departments on the basis of medical organizations and at home.
The MSE of the person being examined (re-examined) is carried out in the direction of the Medical Advisory Commission of the medical organization at the place of his permanent residence (registration):
1) in the MSE departments and (or) the MSE Methodology and Control departments of the relevant region;
2) in healthcare organizations providing inpatient care;
3) in healthcare organizations providing outpatient care;
4) in institutions of the penal enforcement system and in pre-trial detention centers;
5) at home.
MSE is conducted collectively with the participation of the head of the MSE Department or the head of the MSE Methodology and Control Department and at least two chief specialists by reviewing the submitted documents (clinical, functional, social, professional and other data), examining the person being examined, assessing the degree of impairment of bodily functions and disability, including disability.
In case of disagreement with the expert decision of the MSE Department, the person being examined or his legal representative has the right to appeal this decision within a month to the MSE Methodology and Control Department.