Diabetes patients should be provided with life-saving medicines for free. Those with disabilities receive a full social package. A patient with diabetes can refuse a social package and receive monetary compensation, but, as a rule, these payments are much less than the cost of all medicines.
What are the benefits for patients with disabilities
A patient with diabetes who has a disability is entitled to free commuter transport, additional medicines and spa treatment. The state is obliged once a year to provide a sick person with a place in a sanatorium and pay for travel to rest and back.
Regardless of whether there is a disability or not, patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes are required to give out free insulin, hypoglycemic drugs and injection syringes.
Benefits for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes
Both types of patients can be supported by insulin, but type 1 diabetes is incurable, drugs are administered several times a day. Type 2 disease can be cured, but you need to constantly follow a diet.
Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus almost always have a disability. They have the right to receive funds for measuring sugar and drugs. In a serious condition, a person must be looked after by a social worker.
For patients with type 2 diabetes who do not need insulin, free test strips are provided. Within a month, 30 pieces are issued.
Regardless of the type of diabetes mellitus, each patient has the right to social rehabilitation. He can engage in training and retraining, sports and recreation. People with disabilities receive a disability pension. Pregnant women and children suffering from diabetes are provided with glucometers with bar strips and syringe pens.
If necessary, a diabetic may require referral for consultation or hospitalization in a specialized center.
