“Nineteen bodies were found at the site of the fire, two other people succumbed to their wounds at the hospital”, a ministry spokesman told AFP.
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The fire at the clinic overnight to Sunday claimed the lives of 23 people.
The patients at the Novokhopersky Neuropsychiatric Home all were people who died were aged between 46 and 78, based on a list and guys.
Four medical personnel working at the home…
“They simply did not wake up”, a correspondent reported. After those fires, the government had promised to improve fire safety at institutions for psychiatric patients. A lot of the blame was put on fire fighters, who took an hour to get there.
Markin said Russian society should require the building of leading rehabilitation centers with complete security systems.
It is believed the patients choked on noxious smoke.
“There’s no way we would give them matches”, she said in televised remarks.
He also posted pictures of rooms with cracked linoleum, grubby walls and decrepit furniture. “I would make it mandatory for governors to tour such places”. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his sympathy and local authorities called for a day of mourning in the region.
In 2009, 156 people were killed in a nightclub fire in the city of Perm, 1,200 kilometres (700 miles) east of Moscow in one of the deadliest accidents in Russia’s modern history.
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In September 2013, a fire at a home for psychiatric patients in the Novgorod region northwest of Moscow killed 37 people.
