System only awards financial aid whether claimant has lost ‘40% of a bodily function’,meaning thousands no longer qualify. RFE/RL reportsDaniil is five years old but he’s spent more time in a hospital than most adults. final year he was treated four times at the intensive care unit of his local hospital in Magnitogorsk, an industrial city in Russia’s Urals region.
Despite relying on a daily cocktail of medicines to survive due to a life-threatening genetic disease, or Daniil was struck off Russia’s disability register in October,leaving his family to pay for his treatment themselves.
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Source: theguardian.com