At the present time it is not advisable to initiate the issue of holding parliamentary hearings on the topic "The results of enforcement of the Law "On procedure and conditions of citizens in the areas of medical and preventive labor conditions and finding in them"". This was reported by the human rights activist Leonid Svetsik chairman of the Standing Committee of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly for Human Rights, National Relations and Mass Media Andrei Naumovich.
Leonid Svetik, who addressed the House of Representatives with a proposal to hold parliamentary hearings, questioned the quality of compulsory treatment of people suffering from drug addiction or alcoholates, in medical-labor dispensaries (LTP). For the maintenance, protection and treatment of citizens in the state spends huge LTP both tangible and intangible resources. However, no one has comprehensively deep into analyzing how effective the work of LTP in terms of economics, morality and humanity.
In his address to parliamentarians Vitsebsk human rights activist also pointed out that the heads of agencies of the Department of Corrections, in the immediate possession of the LTP, avoided publicize what is happening behind the barbed wire and high fences hospitals. Therefore, according to Leonid Svetik, many citizens and human rights non-governmental organizations is perceived negatively by the fact that the system of LTP at the disposal of the Ministry of Interior – the state body, whose purpose – to punish, rather than treat it.
In addition, according to human rights activist, the fact that the content of LTP citizens in need of treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction, their dignity. He also notes that non-governmental organizations and health workers to treat under a "compulsory treatment through forced labor" is perceived as a violation of human rights, in particular a violation of Article 8 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Based on the above reasoning, Leonid Svetik suggested that the Permanent Commission of the National Assembly for Human Rights, National Relations and Mass Media to initiate parliamentary hearings on "The results of the enforcement of the Law "On procedure and conditions of citizens in the areas of medical-labor dispensaries conditions and location they"".
Answer Leonid Svetsik his proposal came signed by the chairman of the permanent commission Andrei Naumovicha. He said the human rights activist that May 14, 2014 by the House of Representatives adopted a draft law "On amendments and additions to some laws of the Republic of Belarus on the direction of citizens in activity therapy centers and the conditions of stay in them" (the law came into force June 29, 2014).
"Members of the House of Representatives – Members of the Commission actively participated in the consideration of the draft of the Act. For example, at my suggestion, it was made provision for the possibility of reducing the term of the citizen in activity therapy centers. The Act also sets out regulations on the termination of being in medical-labor dispensaries citizens who have reached retirement age (men – sixty years, women – fifty-five years old), pregnant women, disabled groups I and II, people with the disease, preventing them finding employment in health dispensaries, by decision of the chief medical-labor dispensaries," – said Andrew Naumovich.
Chairman of the standing committee of the lower chamber of the Belarusian parliament and human rights activist informed that May 14, 2015 in Minsk Region held a seminar on "Conditions of detention in the penitentiary system of the Republic of Belarus and the functioning of the prisons". In addition to the House of Representatives, the seminar was attended by representatives of the Presidential Administration, the Prosecutor General, Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly, the National Centre for Legislation and Legal Research, heads of local authorities. At the workshop, also discussed the functioning of medical-labor dispensaries.
"In this regard, and given the fact that since the entry into force of the latest amendments to the Law of the Republic of Belarus "On procedure and conditions of citizens in the areas of medical-labor dispensaries conditions and finding in them" less than a year, we believe the question of initiation hold these parliamentary hearings currently impractical" – so has completed its response to the proposal of human rights defender Leanid Svetsik chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly for Human Rights, National Relations and Mass Media Naumovich.
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