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Health protection shall be ensured through state funding of the relevant socio-
economic, medical and sanitary, health improvement and prevention programmes.
The State shall create conditions for effective medical service accessible to all
citizens.

State and communal health protection institutions shall render medical care
free of charge; the existing network of such institutions shall not be reduced.
The State shall provide for the development of physical culture and sports,
and ensure sanitary-epidemic welfare.
Everyone shall have the right to an environment that is safe for life and health,
and to compensation for damages caused by a violation of this right.
Everyone shall be guaranteed the right of free access to information about the
environmental situation, the quality of foodstuffs and consumer goods, as well as the
right to disseminate such information. No one shall make such information secret.
Human and citizen rights and freedoms shall be protected by the court.
Everyone shall be guaranteed the right to challenge in court the decisions,
actions, or inactivity of State power, local self-government bodies, officials and
officers.
Everyone shall have the right to appeal for the protection of his rights to the
Authorised Human Rights Representative (Ombudsman) to the Verkhovna Rada of
Ukraine.
After exhausting all domestic legal instruments, everyone shall have the right
to appeal for the protection of his rights and freedoms to the relevant international
judicial institutions or to the relevant bodies of international organisations of which
Ukraine is a member or participant.
Everyone shall have the right to protect his rights and freedoms from violations
and illegal encroachments by any means other than prohibited by law.
Everyone shall be guaranteed the right to know his rights and duties.
Laws and other regulatory legal acts defining the rights and duties of citizens
shall be brought to the notice of the population in compliance with the procedure
established by law.
Laws and other regulatory legal acts defining the rights and duties of citizens,
which have not been brought to the notice of the population in compliance with the
procedure established by law, shall be invalid.

All system of legislative acts of Ukraine on labor protection aims at the
realization of constitutional rights.

1 .2 Law of Ukraine “On Labor Protection”

Law of Ukraine "On Labor Protection" (adopted 14.10.1992, the law in the
new version came into force from 20.01.2018) - a basic legal document in the field of
LP.
In Law of Ukraine “On Labour Protection” setting forth basic provisions as
regards exercising the constitutional right of employed citizens to ensuring

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