“The administration of the Solnechnogorsk Regional Hospital promised to conduct an investigation after reports of a stranger’s corpse being given to the family in a hospital near Moscow, but when the error became clear, the body had already been buried. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta in the Department of Health of the Moscow Region. According to the department, the attending physician was suspended from duty while the investigation is pending. ‘Based on its results, a legal assessment of the actions of employees will be given and, if necessary, administrative measures will be taken,’ said the Moscow Regional Department of Health. Varvara Korchashkina wrote on Facebook that she is now trying to prove that her actual grandfather Grigory Vasiliev, is alive.”

“According to the hospital staff, the nurse changed their places on the beds and forgot to inform about it on the watch, the girl said. ‘The relatives of the deceased received a call from the hospital and said that they could take their grandfather, since the treatment was over. And when they arrived, instead of their grandfather, they took out my grandfather, to which they, of course, declared that this was not their relative, ‘Korchashkina said… Now relatives are trying to prove that Grigory Vasiliev is alive, but this is not easy, since he himself is already listed as dead according to all documents. The case is complicated by the fact that he needs urgent rehabilitation, and it is impossible to release a formally dead person to another medical institution” – Novaya Gazeta, translated by Google and edited for clarity by National Zero.