Three patients of the Odessa Regional Medical Center for Mental Health found in the cemetery. All of them have disabilities: one has a head injury, the other does not have both legs, and the third moves by crawling..

Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova announced this on her Facebook page.

" There they were found by caring citizens. All three were temporarily placed in the Odessa city center for the integration of persons without a fixed abode, "

During a conversation with the head of the center, Denisova, we managed to find out that on June 4, around 16. 30 three men were brought to the ambulance. One of them confirmed that they were indeed being treated at the Odessa Regional Mental Health Center..

" And they explained that these persons were in a satisfactory mental state at the time of the examination, they were not subjected to forced hospitalization, "

In addition, all three were not declared legally incompetent by the court.. Patients had the opportunity to voluntarily leave the medical center and return there at will. However, “how people with disabilities could cover the distance of 7 kilometers” was not explained to the ombudsman at the medical facility.

On this fact, law enforcement officers began a pre-trial investigation under Part 1 of Article 135 of the Criminal Code - "