Activity report – ANDST – Portugal

Portugal is going
through a serious economic recession with indirect influence, either in the
health national system, or in the social security public system, putting in
cause essential rights, specially those of the disabled people.

Portugal
has an advanced legislation about the rights of disabled people but it has not
succeeded to benefit disabled people and their families.

Despite technical and finantial difficulties with which non
governamental organizations have been facing and the real politics of the
country that ignores more and more the social and economic rights of the
socially less favoured the National Association of the Injured Deficient in Work
(ANDST) tries to fight for the social rights of the victims of the work
accidents and professional diseases with persistence and
devotion.

The
developed activities by ANDST are:

–
attendance
to the partners and non partners, victims of work accidents andd
professional diseases, through a technical support

–
hospital
and domiciliary visits, following the evolution of the clinical recovery
of thee victims of an accident

–
organization
of thematics sessions about work accidents and professional diseases,
including information and approach session, in the area of project Â“ IODO
Â“equal opportunities, several optionsÂ” in partnership with
Fenacerci

–
accomplishment
of one inquiry of good practice in order to know the integration andd the
integration of victims of work accidents and professional diseases victims
in thee job market

–
participation
in the National Council of Rehabilitation, in the Commission of the re-
examination of the national list of disabilities and in the initiatives
integrated in the celebration of the European year of disabled
people

–
the
same attitude must be kept towards FIMITIC in the scope of international
relations informing ANDST at European level about work accidents and
professional disease legislation.

ANDST
has got some priorities:

–
re-
examination of present legal rules of the compensation of work accidents
in order to be more embrancing, more equitable and closer to the U.E.
countries

–
integration
of work accidents in social security according to the previous
comprehensive law

–
development
of the project of intervention and psychotherapeutic rehabilitation
in order to support ANDST
members, specially the most disabled and their families, trying their
social and professional rehintegration

–
organization
of a debate about the question of work accidents, namely about the
adaptation of the national list of disabilities

–
struggle
for the establishment of valuation centres of disabilities in the offices
of the coroners of the legal medicine institutes

–
establishment
of the national day of the injured person

–
preparation
of a commission for the foundation of a national monument to the work
victims