State Medical-Social Expertise and Rehabilitation Agency, under the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population, had provided 87,7 thousand rehabilitation aids to people with disabilities in the period from January to November of this year.
Among these, 5,8 thousand were wheelchairs (including 238 motorized wheelchairs), 1,8 thousand were lower and upper limb prostheses, 2,1 thousand were hearing aids, 2,6 thousand were crutches and elbow crutches, and 159 were corsets.
Additionally, 3,1 thousand pairs of prosthetic shoes, 5,9 thousand pairs of orthopedic shoes, and other rehabilitation aids were also distributed.
In total, 11,2 thousand people with disabilities received rehabilitation aids in the 11 months of this year.