ANNUAL REPORTOF UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 80 Ukraine is yet another negative factor in the field of health care. This situation makes it difficult to determine actual number of these patients and the real need for medicines and special dietary foods. Therefore, it causes violations of the right of citizens, in particular of children, to appropriate health care. In December 2019, the Commissioner addressed the Ministry of Health. The latter reported that the transformation of the health care system in Ukraine is underway, and the treatment and provision of such patients with health care has been identified as one of the priorities. This issue remains on the watch list of the Commissioner. The right to social protection CHAPTER 3 Monitoring of the the right of the child to social protection proved that only 5 (Malynivska village amalgamated territorial community in Kharkiv oblast, Baranynska village amalgamated territorial community in Zakarpattia oblast, Novoukrainska municipal amalgamated territorial community in Kirovohrad oblast, Stepankivska village amalgamated territorial community in Cherkasy oblast, Krynycha village amalgamated territorial community in Dnipropetrovsk oblast) out of 41 visited ATCs perform guardianship functions in the field of protection of the rights of the child. At the same time, in violation of the Law of Ukraine “On Bodies and Service Units for Children and Special Institutions for Children” #20/95-BP of 24 January 1995, 36 ATCs covered by monitoring did not establish a service unit for children, and no structural unit or employee was enstrusted with protection of the rights and interests of children. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Social Policy, as of 1 December 2019, out of 834 ATCs, only 207 (24.8%) established service units for children. Therefore, no adequate activities are taken at the local level for the social protection of children in difficult life circumstances, in particular to ensure their right to family education, granting the status of an orphaned child and a child deprived of parental care, a child affected by hostilities and an armed conflict, placement of orphaned children and children deprived of parental care, protection of personal, property and housing rights of children, etc. As a result of the monitoring visits, the Commissioner sent requests to the leadership of ATCs to establish service units for children or to appoint a relevant employee. Following these requests, 18 ATCs plan to establish such service units in 2020 or entrust their employees with respective functions. Example Borodyanka village council in Kyiv oblast established a service unit for children, approved the relevant regulations and in January 2020, announced a competition for the positions of employees of the service unit. In addition, the staff of the Secretariat of the Commissioner conducted trainings on the methodology of monitoring and the main problems of children’s rights at the local level for the representatives of the ATCs and service units for children from Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Luhansk, Odesa, Poltava and Zhytomyr oblasts.