During 10 months of this year, 52 thousand people were assigned disability.

APA informs that this was said by Ilkin Yusifov, the deputy director of the Department of Organization of the Medical-Social Expertise Service of the State Medical-Social Expertise and Rehabilitation Agency in "Social Hour".

He said that 16,700 of them are primary disabilities, and the rest are disabilities made as a result of repeated applications:

"Among those applying for disability, those suffering from oncological diseases prevail".