field, education, psychosocial assistance, escort and in the operative sector. At the level of the
Botoșani Penitentiary, two doctors were hired (general medicine and dentistry).
• during the monitoring of the Siret Chronic Psychiatric Hospital, it was found that the
legal provisions were not observed, when setting up the Commission for involuntary
hospitalization (2 psychiatrists and a doctor of other specialty or a representative of civil
society): it was composed of 3 members, respectively two psychiatrists and a lawyer employed
by the unit.
Also, in the Psychiatric Hospital for Safety Measures Săpoca, the Commission of
involuntary hospitalization did not have a precise structure and didn’t comply with the
categories of personnel provided by Law no. 487/2002, republished. The commissions, set up
during 2016-2020, were made up of: 2, 3 or even 4 psychiatrists; a doctor of another specialty
(laboratory doctor or internal medicine doctor); a social worker. In the last order of the interim
manager, dated 1 July 2020, a legal adviser was also mentioned in the commission. According
to the abovementioned order, the social worker provided the secretariat (but in all decisions
taken by the Commission, he signed and applied his personal stamp, as a member), and the
legal adviser provided the communication of court decisions. Both the social worker and the
legal adviser, who do not represent medical staff, participated as members of the commission
in the psychiatric assessment of the persons for whom involuntary hospitalization / cessation
of involuntary hospitalization was requested and signed the decisions adopted.
Following the recommendations made in the visit reports, the Involuntary
Hospitalization Commissions were set up according to the legal provisions.
►During the year 2020, based on the collaboration between the departments of the
People's Advocate institution, NPM paid a visit to the Emergency Reception Center for
Children Slatina, Olt County, and carried out an investigation at the National Center for
Accommodation and Procedures for Asylum Seekers Bucharest (following the notification
made by Ms. Nisreen Rubaian, Representative in Romania of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees - UNHCR, on the situation of minors, aged between 12 and 13
accommodated in this center), both together with representatives of the Ombudsman for
Children.
There has been a permanent collaboration with the Department on army, justice, police,
penitentiaries regarding the preparation and development of a joint work plan, for monitoring
the measures for the protection of persons deprived of liberty / of the personnel from
penitentiaries and detention and remand centers, undertaken by the ANP and the General
Inspectorate of the Romanian Police, as well as informing the NPM regarding the complaints
of the persons kept in such places of detention. Similarly, the Department on human rights,
equal opportunities for men and women, religious cults and national minorities informed the
NPM of possible human rights violations in Covid-19 hospitals and institutionalized quarantine
sites.
There were also several collaborations with colleagues from the Department on the rights
of family, youth, pensioners, people with disabilities: • preparation of the response to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, regarding the apparently discriminatory treatment applied to
beneficiaries of CRRN Sasca Mică (Suceava County), CIA Paclișa (Hunedoara county), CRRN
Costâna and Svoriștea (Suceava county) and the “Sf. Ilie ”(Galați County), as well as on the
access to adequate medical care for institutionalized people with disabilities, infected with
COVID-19; • interview on Skype with the representative of the World Bank, regarding the
project «Strengthening the coordination mechanism for the implementation of the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Romania» and elaborating a diagnosis
of the situation of persons with disabilities in Romania, to substantiate the future «2021-2027
National Strategy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities»; • formulating a complex
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