2.5 million was returned from the Center for Disaster Medicine after the death of a patient in an accident The Territorial Center for Disaster Medicine of the Sverdlovsk region had to answer in court. The accident happened on May 20: a woman born in 1959 was transferred from a medical institution in Yekaterinburg to the Serov city hospital in a UAZ car that belonged to the disaster medicine center. As the court determined, the driver "was in a tired state." The car slid to the right side of the road and collided with a concrete lamp post.
The patient received a combined injury to the head, upper body and limbs and died. Her relatives applied to the court demanding compensation for moral damage and compensation for funeral expenses. The plaintiff supported the demands of all five plaintiffs - members of the deceased patient's family - for compensation for moral damage. The court collected a total of 2.5 million rubles from the Territorial Center for Disaster Medicine for their benefit. The announcement of the prosecutor's office does not indicate whether the decision entered into legal force. In October 2026, the district court in Sorovsky found the driver guilty of violating traffic laws that negligently caused the death of a person. He was sentenced to a year's probation.