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centers within Sector 6 as well as training sessions for the staff within the Volunteering and
Vocational Training Service within the D.G.A.S.P.C. Sector 6 for the correct training for
managing the problematic behaviors of the beneficiaries; ● identification and financing from
D.G.A.S.P.C. Sector 6 of training courses on the topic of taking care of children with
behavioral problems, especially in order to manage crisis situations, unforeseen situations
(unauthorized leaving of the center, alcohol consumption, inappropriate behaviors); ● the case
manager of the Association will submit for debate, in the Commission for the Protection of
the Child Sector 6, the difficult cases, in order to identify the best solution for protection.
• After the visit to the Târgu-Jiu penitentiary, we recommended to the penitentiary
management to establish a register in which to record all the special family situations of the
persons deprived of liberty (serious illness or death in the family, etc.), and specify the
moment when they were informed by the prison administration about these events. The
penitentiary management replied that the register was established on May 27, 2019, managed
by the psychosocial assistance bureau, and the data regarding potential risk situations were
transmitted to the operative and medical sectors through informative notes.
• Considering the NPM team's finding of 32 beneficiaries placed under interdiction,
who did not have guardianship measures (thus it was not ensured the observance of their
fundamental rights, nor the necessary safeguards to avoid abuses), during the visit made to the
Center for Integration through Occupational Therapy Râmnicu Sărat, Buzau County, it
was recommended to the management to request the Legal Service within the D.G.A.S.P.C.
Buzău, in order to appoint the legal representatives. According to the response communicated,
steps have been taken to identify the persons, both from the families of the beneficiaries and
from the institutions, in order to appoint the legal representatives; the procedure was started
to ensure the legal protection of the beneficiaries without legal protection, the appointment of
the legal representatives being done by the court by a designating guardian and concluding
contracts for the provision of services for them.
Most of the units visited took the necessary steps to implement the recommendations.
However, there were situations when they did not comply, therefore the hierarchically
superior authorities were notified, in accordance with the provisions of Art. 44 paragraph (3)
of Law no. 35/1997, republished. We mention the case of the Voila Psychiatric Hospital (in
the monitoring activity, situations were identified that presented a high risk for patients with
mental disorders to be subjected to ill treatment, for example, the existence of safety /
surveillance rooms, closed rooms, where there were accommodated both non-voluntary and
voluntary patients, whose freedom of movement was restricted); the management's response
was considered incomplete (they did not respond in the case of recommendations regarding
involuntary hospitalization, free and informed patient consent, psychosocial assistance) or
unsatisfactory (regarding the implementation of recommendations on the application of
measures to restrict freedom of movement, respect for patients' privacy, safety / surveillance
rooms – accommodation and supervision conditions, involuntary admission, free and
informed consent of the patient). The Ministry of Health – the General Directorate for Medical
Assistance and Public Health and the Local Council of the Municipality of Campina were
notified.
►In the course of 2019, based on the collaboration between the departments of
the People's Advocate Institution and the territorial offices, the NPM staff carried out 18
investigations together with colleagues from the Department for family rights, youth,
pensioners, persons with disabilities, the Department for human rights, equality of chances
between men and women, religious cults and national minorities and the Territorial Offices
(Ploiești, Craiova, Brașov, Oradea, Alba-Iulia, Bacău), as follows: Clinical Psychiatric
PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE
ANNUAL REPORT 2019
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