Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a law “On the rights of persons with disabilities”.

The law defines the basic principles of ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities, the press service of the Ministry of Justice reports.

According to the Law, the activity of medical and social expert commissions will be improved.

According to this, the examination will be carried out free of charge no later than 10 days from the date of acceptance of the medical documents.

A number of issues related to the social protection of disabled people and the guarantee of their rights are fixed at the level of the Law. In particular:

Organizations create conditions for ensuring access of persons with disabilities to sports facilities, recreation facilities, as well as tourist facilities, including on a free basis;

The state takes measures to provide qualified medical care to persons with disabilities, which is carried out within the framework of the program of state guarantees for the provision of free medical care to citizens;

The state guarantees the receipt of free general secondary, out-of-school, secondary specialized and vocational education for children with disabilities;

For persons with disabilities, an additional two percent quota of admission to higher educational institutions is allocated on the basis of a state grant from the total number of admission of applicants;

Persons with disabilities have the right to free sanatorium and resort rehabilitation, as well as the provision of medicines, medical products for the care of persons with disabilities and specialized medical food products for children with disabilities;

Persons with disabilities have the right to receive social housing on preferential terms;

Hotel owners are obliged to equip at least one room from the total room stock, accessible for persons with disabilities who use a wheelchair, as well as to ensure the installation of displays and sound devices for announcements that meet the needs of people with hearing and vision disabilities;

Local government bodies have the right to establish additional social guarantees for persons with disabilities at the expense of the local budget.

The law comes into force three months after the date of its official publication.