A feldsher in Yekaterinburg declared a pensioner dead, but she revived at the funeral home.

      In Yekaterinburg a feldsher made a mistake and declared an 83-year-old woman dead, the press service of the courts of Sverdlovsk Region reports.

      The pensioner lived practically alone. Her granddaughter visited her a couple of times a month. At the end of October last year the girl went to her grandmother’s, but she did not open the door. The Yekaterinburg resident called a locksmith. When the apartment was opened, it turned out that the electricity had been cut off because of debts, and the grandmother was lying in the bathroom with no signs of life.

      A feldsher from Central City Hospital No. 2 named after Mstislavsky pronounced the grandmother dead. The paperwork for removing the body was completed by night. Employees of the funeral service began preparing for transportation and discovered that the woman was showing signs of life. An ambulance crew took her to the “New Hospital.” However, after several days the patient died, writes the EAN news outlet.

      The pensioner’s granddaughter filed a lawsuit in the Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg against Central City Hospital No. 2 named after Mstislavsky. She demanded 900,000 rubles in moral damages and reimbursement of burial expenses. In court the hospital’s representatives argued that the granddaughter was to blame herself because she rarely visited her grandmother and did not check on her condition. It turned out the patient had suffered a stroke, was immobilized and suffered from bedsores.

      The court ordered a postmortem forensic examination. Experts concluded that the feldsher’s actions were not the direct cause of death, but she nevertheless failed to take the necessary measures to save the patient. The court awarded the granddaughter 70,000 rubles in moral damages and 24,789 rubles for burial expenses, to be paid by the hospital.

      Earlier we reported how a family in the Urals buried a Canadian instead of their deceased father.