Baku hosts int'l seminar on assessment of disability
International seminar on “Assessment of disability in Azerbaijan: current achievements and future steps" has started in Baku, organized by the Labor and Social Protection Ministry and the World Bank.
Disability and rehabilitation specialists of World Health
Organization and World Bank, representatives of the relevant
government agencies, as well international organizations operating
in Azerbaijan take part at the event, AzerTag state news agency
reported.
The workshop aims definition of disability in Azerbaijan and to
analyze medical and social rehabilitation system together with
experts from international organizations, as well to become
familiar with the world’s progressive experience in this field.
The two-day seminar will discuss improvement of criteria of the
assessment of disability, also necessary reforms on transition
process of medical model to social model.
Minister Salim Muslumov wished success to the seminar and informed
about the conditions established for the convenience of
disability.
Andro Shilakadze, UNICEF representative in Azerbaijan and
representatives of the World Bank addressed the workshop
participants.
Seminar continued with the reports of local and international
experts.