Kamchatka: Residents have to store the bodies of the dead in sheds

Residents of the northern remote villages of the Kamchatka Territory cannot bury their loved ones in time. The corpses have to be delivered on helicopters to the administrative center, but because of problems with transport, this is not always possible to do.

The last similar case occurred in the village of Kovran last week: the man drowned in the river, fleeing the bear, his relatives could not take the body for a long time to a pathologist. As a result, the Investigative Committee allowed to bury without an autopsy, but before that, the corpse had to be stored in the barn for a long time. Sometimes the inhabitants of Carpores are forced to violate the law and bury without permission and certificates. “Relatives did not want to wait, put the child to the morgue and buried without opening. Then the police were versed, they made an exhumation of the body, there was a serious conversation. They said to people that they violated the law, and buried Siberia. Real to the correspondent of the village of Constantine without permission and without a certificate.

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The morgue closest to the village is in the administrative center, the village of Palan. In the summer, you can get there only by helicopter, in the cold season - on snowmobiles to the nearest village of Tigil, and from there to the Palace according to the winter road. To organize the transportation of bodies that in the winter, in the summer, it does not always work out, local officials admit.

“It is not always possible to provide a helicopter right away, so sometimes we have to wait a long time while they deliver. Meanwhile, the bodies are in the sheds. But we don’t have their first -aid posts, there are no doctors, because no one wants to go to such conditions,” commented Siberia. Real, the deputy head of the rural settlement, Kovran Vladimir Bay.

In Taimyr, residents of remote villages at the end of last year talked about a similar situation. They do not have the opportunity to deliver dead relatives to Dudinka or Norilsk, and forensic experts and pathologists are there only there. As a result, people either keep the bodies in the sheds "until better times", or bury them themselves, without medical conclusion and relevant documents. Local authorities recognized the problem and promised to take measures to solve it.