the hospital. The patient was released ex officio on 29.06.2017, 5 p.m. (The time
when she was not found).
Based on the submitted documents and the discussions with the temporary
management of the Hospital for Psychiatry and Safety Measures of Jebel, it was
found that the physician on duty organized the systematic search of the patient with
the staff of the department based on the internal procedure, both within the hospital
(accessible areas) and on its outskirts (the Station of Jebel, the commune of Obad, the
Ciacova highway and the Padureni commune). The search for the patient did not
yield any results.
On 31.07.2017, after more than 30 days, the dead body of the disappeared
patient was found in an advanced state of putrefaction within the Hospital for
Psychiatry and Safety Measures of Jebel, in a hardly accessible place, covered in
vegetation. Based on the internal procedures of the hospital, the police bodies were
notified by phone (Police of Deta, Department 9 of the Rural Police of Jebel), who
started the actions for identifying the dead person and for investigating the
circumstances of the death.
The medical certificate for the death issued by the Institute of Legal Medicine
of Timisoara on 03.08.2017 set out “Myocardic Fibrosis” as the cause of death.
The team visit found in the Visit Report that there were some faults in the
supervision of the dead patient, which allowed her to leave the pavilion of the
medical department and facilitated the occurrence of the event. The People’s
Advocate Institution recommended that the Hospital for Psychiatry and Safety
Measures of Jebel, Timis county should urgently arrange the inside yard by
completely deforesting the area with abundant spontaneous vegetation, to improve
supervision and avoid unpredictable events, considering the patients’ psychiatric
pathology.
Regarding this Recommendation, the management of the centre stated that an
assessment of the field of the inside yard would be performed within two weeks by
the Administrative Office of the unit and the required works would be estimated, so
as to purchase the services of a relevant company for deforestation-arrangement
works, when the 2018 budget of the unit was approved.
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