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The list of doctors’ deaths due to the coronavirus, which is maintained by the Ministry of Health, includes 101 people

Data is checked with the information of the Social Insurance Fund daily.

The Ministry of Health maintains a register of Russian physicians who died from coronavirus. There are 101 people as of Friday in it. Such data was presented on Tuesday by Lyudmila Letnikova, the director of the Ministry of Health Department of Public Health, Communications and Expert Activities.

She also said that each region should fill out the register online in accordance with the decree. “This week, in addition <…> we asked the subjects to confirm the list of deceased health workers,” Letnikova said at the State Duma Committee on Health Protection working group meeting.

In addition, she said that these data are checked with the information of the Social Insurance Fund (FSS) daily. “In turn, the FSS relies on both the data in the memory list and the media data,” Letnikova concluded.

She also noted that, according to the FSS, more than a thousand commissions conduct investigations into the doctors’ deaths in the regions.

The Association of Private Museums of Russia staff and the Association director A. Shaburov personally express condolences to the relatives and friends of doctors who died from coronavirus.

A deep bow and sincere gratitude to the doctors for their truly heroic work in the fight against the epidemic!

Source: TASS