Jamila Jamanbaeva, a human rights defender, called on state authorities to ensure the rights of people with psychiatric disorders. She revealed that 19 individuals at the Kadamjay Psychoneurological Social Care Institution do not have passports, with a total of 142 across the country.
The Ministry of Labor and Social Development currently oversees 17 Social Care Institutions (SCIs). These facilities house adults and children with psychiatric illnesses, elderly individuals living alone, and persons with disabilities who have partially or completely lost self-care skills. The staff at these institutions assist in obtaining necessary documents.
The ministry highlighted several challenges they face:
1. Some service recipients were born in other Soviet republics, not Kyrgyzstan. To obtain a new passport, they need to present their birth certificate or its duplicate and marriage certificate. However, requests sent to other states of their birth remain unanswered.
2. Some beneficiaries hold passports from other countries. Kyrgyzstan lacks regulations for deporting foreign citizens residing in care homes.
3. There are citizens who did not have a permanent residence before being placed in social institutions. Due to their inability to accurately indicate where they obtained passports or birth certificates, assisting them in document restoration is problematic.
The ministry has reached out to the Ministry of Digital Development with a proposal to develop a legal act for expedited passport issuance to social care recipients facing significant documentation challenges.
