How to Get Assistance After an Injury?

How can a servicemember obtain a referral for treatment, rehabilitation, and health restoration?

What benefits or financial payments are available in specific cases? What documents are required, and where can they be obtained?

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has launched a "Path of the Injured" section on its website, answering many of the supposed questions. Here, action algorithms and guides will help in processing financial payments, obtaining the status of a Disabled Veteran, prosthetics, and much more.

The website also provides document samples and instructions to simplify and streamline the process of receiving assistance.

Guide for a servicemember after an injury

Injury

• Immediate actions after an injury
• Primary medical card (Form 100)

Injury or illness

• Referral to a healthcare facility
• Refusal to be referred to a healthcare facility
• List of documents for a healthcare facility

Interaction with the military unit during treatment

• Interaction with the military unit during treatment

Treatment

• Immediate actions at the healthcare facility
• Treatment at a civilian state or municipal healthcare facility
• Treatment at a private healthcare facility
• Home treatment
• Treatment abroad
• List of documents after treatment

Certificate of the circumstances of the injury

• Certificate of the circumstances of the injury
• Procedure for issuing a certificate of the circumstances of the injury
• Your actions to obtain a certificate of the circumstances of the injury (injury, concussion, disability)
• What to do if you are not provided with a certificate of the circumstances of the injury

Payments

• Types of Payments
• Monthly financial support and additional remuneration Procedure in case of cessation of additional remuneration payments
• Amount of additional remuneration
• One-time financial assistance
• Timelines for receiving one-time financial assistance
• Amount of one-time financial assistance
• Procedure for obtaining one-time financial assistance
• Payment of one-time financial assistance in case of pre-existing disability acquired before injury/illness
• Recurring payment of one-time financial assistance in case of injury that led to a further loss of work capacity
• Cases when one-time financial assistance is not provided
• Material assistance for resolving social and household issues
• Financial assistance for rehabilitation purposes
• Financial support for servicemembers temporarily withdrawn from service (under the commander's order) during treatment
• Payments to servicemembers upon discharge

Military Medical Commission (MMC)

• What is the MMC?
• Do I need an MMC?
• Referral to the MMC
• Refusal to provide a referral to the MMC
• Documents required for the MMC
• Examination Procedure for the MMC
• Examination Timelines for the MMC examination
• MMC decision
• Medical leave
• Fit for military service but feeling unwell
• Continuation of treatment (rehabilitation)
• Treatment (rehabilitation) abroad
• Full fitness for military service
• Limited fitness for military service
• Temporary unfitness with subsequent review in 6-12 months
• Unfitness for military service with exclusion from military records Appealing an MMC decision

Medical-Social Expert Commission (MSEC)

• What is the MSEC?
• Timelines for the MSEC examination
• Procedure for the MSEC examination
• Impact of pre-existing disability acquired before injury on the MSEC examination
• Documents required for the MSEC examination
• On-site or remote MSEC examination

Prosthetics

• Prosthetics in Ukraine
• When to start prosthetics?
• Free prosthetics
• Prosthetics abroad

Certificate of Combatant Participant Who is eligible for the Combatant Participant status

• Documents required for obtaining the Combatant Participant status Procedure for obtaining the Combatant Participant certificate
• Obtaining the Combatant Participant certificate upon the commander's request
• Obtaining the Combatant Participant certificate through the Territorial Center for Social Services and the State Penitentiary Refusal to grant the Combatant Participant status

Certificate of Disabled Person

• Who is eligible for the Disabled Person status due to the war?
• Procedure for obtaining the Disabled Person status due to the war Document restoration Restoration of military ID or officer's certificate Restoration of the Combatant Participant certificate

Restoration of a passport

• Restoration of a lost Kyivstar mobile phone number
• Restoration of a lost Vodafone mobile phone number
• Restoration of a lost Lifecell mobile phone number
• Restoration of a bank card

Above is the list of questions already available on the website. The guide is constantly updated and supplemented.