Four-year-old Muscovite Yulia Trofimova, who has had one eye since birth, was deprived of disability, NTV television reported. Thus, her family lost not only a cash allowance for disability, but also other elements of government support – preferential medicine prices, free medical help and free prosthetics.
Julia Trofimova was born with one eye. When she was 4 months old, the girl had an eyeball prosthesis. It must be changed twice a year, as the child is growing and, accordingly, it is necessary to increase the size of the prosthesis. In addition, the girl has several other health issues.
The Bureau for Social Support decided that the lack of an eye does not affect the development of the girl, and deprived her of disability. We went for a medical and social examination with an eye without a prosthesis. They saw the child in this condition and said: “well, she is a beautiful girl and will be OK, ”said the girl’s mother, Victoria Trofimova. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation became interested in this story. “The girl had the status of a disabled person and received support from the state and free rehabilitation.
However, after several years of quota treatment, the experts from the bureau of medical and social expertise removed the disability. Currently, a single mother needs to purchase medicines at her own expense, ”the press service of the Investigative Committee says. A local prosecutor was instructed to examine the situation, establish all the circumstances and take the necessary measures. In another similar case experts from the Bureau refused to establish a disability for a child in Vladikavkaz who lost his eye as a result of a surgical operation. The medical experts referred to the norm of federal law, according to which disability can be established only if vision in the surviving eye worsens. Every year, the boy needs to change eye prostheses, but his family has to pay for prosthetics and trips to Moscow from his own pocket, since they do not receive state support without establishing disability.
