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in Addition to the issuance of written consent to the disclosure of medical confidentiality of a citizen or his legal representative has the right to identify persons who may be given information about the state of his health, including after his death, stated in the explanatory note.

these can be family members – spouse, children, parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters and other persons specified in the informed voluntary consent to medical intervention.

the Order of registration of the written request will identify the Ministry of health of Russia.

the Document was developed in pursuance of decisions of the constitutional court of the Russian Federation of 13 January 2020, which stated the law does not regulate the access to the medical records of a deceased patient, his relatives and other persons specified in the informed voluntary consent. “The failure in obtaining the necessary information when they need in order to check the cause of the death of a loved one, affect the rights of the applicant,” – said in the decree of the court.

the COP ordered the institutions to provide the persons specified in voluntary informed consent, access to medical documents of the deceased with the ability to make copies. The denial is valid only in the case when a patient with a life expressed prohibition on disclosure of information.