Saw this item on CrimeRussia under High Profile Cases. I’m not sure why they call this a high profile case, but it seems like sensitive info is sensitive info no matter what country you live in, and having papers with medical info floating around is just not acceptable in Russia, either.
The Regional Prosecutor’s Office began checking reports of discarded medical cards and waste.
In Saratov, illegal dumps of medical waste and documents with personal data of patients and staff of the medical organization were found in the courtyards of emergency houses. The Regional Prosecutor’s Office is going to clarify the circumstances of the incident and its possible consequences, TASS reports.
Such dumps are periodically found in different parts of Russia. In the same Saratov region, the townspeople videotaped soaked medical cards thrown out onto the street, on which it was possible to find the names of patients and their diagnoses. On April 4, a lot of discarded data were found in Izhevsk, after which the ICR initiated the check.