78 Recommendation implemented successfully: As a result of the petition addressed by a person deprived of liberty in the Miercurea Ciuc Penitentiary and who claimed an alleged violation of his rights, an investigation was carried out at this penitentiary. Following the investigation, the People's Advocate issued Recommendation no. 44/2019, regarding the observance of the mandatory minimum norms for conditions of accommodation of the persons deprived of liberty, by ensuring the minimum surface of 4 m2 / prisoner and of the provisions of O.G. no. 27/2002 regulating the activity of petitions solving. The Miercurea Ciuc penitentiary informed us that the following measures were taken: - in order to reduce overcrowding, it will request an analysis from the National Administration of Penitentiaries regarding the possible transfers to Miercurea Ciuc Prison; - more careful supervision regarding the communication of the response within the term provided by the law, to the petitions filed by the persons deprived of liberty (the petitioner submitted during the period February 28 – June 26, 2019, a number of 149 requests, and the management of the penitentiary is aware about a single situation in which it was not answered in time). Authorities that have been open to collaboration: File no. 643/2019 Ex officio notification regarding the situation of some children who, while they were in a sports camp in the town of Borsec, were transported to different hospitals with symptoms of food poisoning. Following the steps taken, the Harghita Public Health Directorate and the Veterinary Health and Food Safety Directorate Harghita presented in detail information regarding the diagnosis of the children admitted to hospitals, the evolution of their health status, as well as the measures taken and the sanctions applied to the service operator responsible for the event presented in the media. The conclusions were that it was an outbreak of food poisoning with 16 patients, produced as a result of hygienic-sanitary deficiencies in the restaurant of the complex, regarding: temperature monitoring in refrigerated spaces, handling of raw materials, use of disinfectants, presence in the unit of employees infected with Stafilococcus aureus. In this case the contravention sanction was applied according to the provisions of G.D. no. 857/2011, and the complementary sanction of temporary suspension of the activity of the unit. File no. 251/2019 Ex officio referral in a situation of concern for the entire community, in the sense that medical units of regional interest, with a considerable number of patients and employees - the Clinic of Urology, Radiology and the Morgue of the County Clinical Hospital in Târgu-Mureș, are dumping in the sewage system of the city, toxic solutions used in the specific activity, biological products and liquid secretions with septic potential, without any pre-treatment according to the environmental norms. At the same time, it was said that this state of affairs has been perpetuated for a long time, as there is no wastewater treatment station in the buildings where the medical activity is carried out (operating rooms, laboratories, treatment rooms, medical offices, salons, radiology, sterilization, morgue), an improvised pretreatment system is used, so that the liquids spilled into the city sewer exceed the maximum contamination limits admissible. The following actions were taken at: Mureș County Council, Mureș Public Health Directorate, Târgu-Mureș County Clinical Hospital, Târgu-Mureș County Emergency Clinical Hospital, Mureș Environmental Protection Agency and the Mureș County Environmental Guard, resulting the following: - the water resulting from the laboratories and the infectious sections are subjected to a process of disinfection with chlorine based substances; PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE ANNUAL REPORT 2019