Deaf-mute, blind and almost immobile, and they refused her personal disability allowance

Although she is deaf and mute, blind, seriously ill, and recently immobile, Bjelopoljka Enesa Hasanović (38) from the village of Kanje, was rejected for the determination of personal disability benefits by the Social Medical Commission of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare.

Enesa lives without any communication with the outside world. She has been deaf and mute since birth, became blind two years ago, and has been completely immobile since last year.

She is taken care of by her mother Đuza (67), whose strength is slowly failing, as she also takes care of her seriously ill husband, Džemo (78), who, due to a severe form of stroke, usually does not get out of bed. The only sign she gives to anyone is when she is thirsty she puts her mother's finger in her mouth. He no longer accepts food of any kind and vomits everything. Enesa receives 77 euros from the Labor Bureau and 65 euros in compensation for someone else's care, and that money, as her mother says, cannot even cover medicine and trips to Beran, where she is often treated. A taxi ride to Bijelo Polje and back costs ten euros. It's even worse now during the winter, when because of the uncleaned roads, hardly anyone can get to that hilly village.

"It's not easy when you know your child is sick and you don't know how to get him to the doctor. The money she receives cannot cover even a part of her needs. After even the slightest movement from the house and driving to the doctor or the Labor Bureau, we cannot calm her down for two or three days. The most difficult thing for me is that we have to bring her personally to the Labor Bureau. She doesn't sleep at all at night, unless sometimes, when we can't take it anymore, we give her tranquilizers prescribed by a neuropsychiatrist," says Djuza.

She says that her eyesight completely went out the year before last, after she got sick with the thyroid gland and that the doctors said that there was nothing more that could be done.

Enesa stayed in the Home for deaf and mute children in Kotor from the age of three until she came of age.

"She attended a special school, and she went home during the holidays. She learned to communicate with her hands, and with her we also learned to communicate with her a little. Until she went blind, she moved normally. She would help me around the house and garden, as much as she felt she could, because we never forced her to work. Ever since her sight went out, she can't even get dressed and bathe, and she doesn't leave the house anymore."

Enesa is so sensitive that after even the slightest physical contact with people other than her mother, she cries for days. All this complicates the situation of this family, which is forced to occasionally take her to the doctor.

"As long as I live I will fight. What are you going to do my son, everything that befalls a man he must suffer. It's hard for me, but what will I do", says Dzuza Hasanović through tears.

The parents explain that they repeatedly inquired about getting some kind of compensation for Enesa, but that the officials of the Center for Social Work told them that it was not possible.

And since her life is completely dependent on others, they recently submitted a request for personal disability benefits, which would make it at least somewhat easier for her parents to take care of their daughter, bearing in mind that her father only receives a 190 euro pension.

The previous director of the Center for Social Work, Admir Mustajbašić, explained in March of last year that, if he exercises the right he was taught about at the Center, instead of an allowance for someone else's care and assistance of 65,35 euros, Hasanović could receive a personal disability allowance of 183,68 EUR, while one of her parents will receive compensation of EUR 198,94. She said that the Center for Social Work will monitor the situation in this family in accordance with the law and financial possibilities, and will approve one-time assistance when there are conditions for it.

Although it is difficult to transport such a patient, Enesa was taken to the doctor and submitted a request for personal disability allowance, but it was rejected. Her parents say that they took her to the doctor many times, but that none of them suggested keeping her for hospital treatment.

"I am ignorant and old, but I cannot come to terms with the fate that Enes' case is not a challenge for any of the many medical experts in Montenegro, the region and the world, to try to help my child". Anyone who wants to help Enesa and her family can do so by making a payment to the giro account number at the Crnogorska commercial bank (CKB): 510000000118289503, in the name of Đuza Hasanović, village of Kanje bb.

First, to complete the interrogation of Enes

The Center for Social Work informed Vijesti that Enesa Hasanović submitted a request to exercise the right to personal disability allowance on February 7, and confirmed that this request was rejected by the First Instance Social - Medical Commission of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare.

"With the explanation that the appointee did not submit the necessary documentation (discharge list) and that a clinical examination of the appointee and submission of the examination results is required). The social medical commission is independent in its work, and decides on the rights of users based on the Rulebook on medical indications for exercising the right to material security, allowance for care and assistance, personal disability allowance and compensation for half-time work," said the director of the Center. for social work, Vesna Minić.

In the answer, they note that Enesa Hasanović permanently uses the right to the allowance for care and assistance, travel privileges, as well as the right to subsidize the electricity bill at that Center.