"It's scary to live in Russia, but even scarier to die." A morgue in Ivanovo Puchezh has been closed due to staff layoffs.

And employees quit because of meager salaries.

"I worked as a pathologist part-time, combining it with another position. I performed about four autopsies a month. I received compensation for my work." 1700 rubles per month"Our salaries are low. No one comes to us. Even if we invite a young specialist, we'll give him an apartment, but how will he live?",
— gives an example of the acting head of the Puchezh Central Regional Hospital Irina Zotova.

The morgue closed last summer, but local residents only began to actively protest it now. The Puchezh Prosecutor's Office has also launched an investigation into the morgue's closure, which will result in an "assessment of compliance with healthcare laws, as well as burial and funeral services."

The dead are gone now пhave to carry Over a hundred kilometers to the Shuya Central Regional Hospital. It's not recommended to die on weekends, because there are bodies in Shuya. пaccept Only on weekdays, from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. The body will be delivered to the Central Regional Hospital free of charge, but there will be a return fee. 7,5 thousand rubles.

The high cost of transportation isn't the only problem. Previously, bodies could be stored at the morgue free of charge until burial, but now they must be stored at home. There are no commercial organizations in the Puchezhsky District that own refrigerated trucks for storing bodies.

"Optimization has reached Puchezh. In Yuzha, they closed everything a hundred years ago: the maternity hospital, the infectious diseases hospital, and the morgue." "Here in Yuryevets, they also closed the morgue and the maternity hospital overnight. They take the bodies to Kineshma for free, but bring them back at your own expense, and the price there is also around 7 rubles. And now they've mostly started taking them to Ivanovo, where the price is over 12 rubles." "It's scary to live in Russia, and even scarier to die."
— residents of the region reacted in the comments.