CAT/OP/ROU/1/Add.1 steps to expand the accommodation space, the unit's management specified that these will be completed in The course of 2016; ● Regarding the implementation of legal steps to provide the necessary staff for the care and treatment of the patients, the management of the unit has decided, within the available budget, to take the competition in order to occupy the positions in the sectors with staff shortage; ● Regarding the continuing professional training of care and supervision staff, the hospital management informed us that this will be a milestone in its vision of improving the quality of the medical act offered to the underserved population. ► During 2017 the monitoring activity of the Psychiatric and Forests-Stalls Safety Measures Hospital was continued. We specify that regarding the accommodation conditions in the Psychiatric Hospital and the Pădureni Grajduri Safety Measures, the accommodation capacity was exceeded in 2017, although the hospital had a capacity of 240 approved beds, accommodated 356 patients (295 men and 61 women) in eight pavilions. As a result, the norms in force stipulating the obligation to provide for each bed of an area of 7 square meters and 20 square meters of air were not observed. In this respect, the management of the Psychiatric and the Pădureni - Grajduri Safety Measures Hospital has made numerous efforts at the Ministry of Health both in 2016 and in 2017. In 2016 a Ministry of Health memorandum was submitted to present. The situation in the Psychiatric Hospital and the Pădureni - Grajduri Safety Measures, Iaşi County. Among the problems identified as priority for the Hospital were the following: the extension of the hotel space, the need to conduct a feasibility study for connections to the water supply and sewerage system and the temporary redevelopment of existing buildings from the structure of the hospital in order to transform them into space Hotel accommodation for patients. According to the responses communicated by the People's Advocate Institution's Hospital Administration as a result of the recommendations formulated, the legal steps for extension of the accommodation were completed and on 15.02.2017 they were submitted to the Ministry of Health on electronic and paper support. Of the intervention works "Rehabilitation, Modernization and Removal Administration Administrative Pavilion for Change of Destination in Pavilion Patients, Psychiatric Hospital and Safety Measures Pădureni Grajduri, Grajduri Commune, Iaşi County", as well as the Documentation for the approval of the Rehabilitation and Modernization of Laundry Pavilion in the View of Change of Destination in the Administrative Pavilion, Psychiatric and Forestry Safety Measures Hospital, Grajduri Commune, Iasi County ". At the same time, it was requested to identify and allocate the financial resources in order to achieve the proposed objective, namely the extension of the hotel space. Taking into account the findings of the 2017 inquiries and previous visits of the People's Advocate Institutions' team regarding the accommodation conditions in the Grajduri Hospital, the Ombudsman Institution issued a recommendation to the Ministry of Health requesting the disposal of legal measures to reduce overcrowding, Accommodation and meal conditions for patients in the Psychiatric Hospital and the Pădureni - Grajduri Hospital, Iaşi County, as well as ensuring decent working conditions for the administrative staff, namely: ● management of overcrowding within the Psychiatric Hospital and for Measures of Safety of Pădureni - Stables, given that at the time of the visits, although the hospital had a capacity of 240 approved beds, 354 and 348 patients were accommodated, so that the norms in force The obligation to insure for each bed an area of 7 square meters and 20 m3 of air; ● Supporting the expenses related to the intervention works for the extension of the hotel space in the Psychiatric Hospital and the Pădureni - Grajduri Safety Measures, Iaşi County, in order to ensure the accommodation conditions for the patients from the Psychiatric Hospital and the Pădureni - Grajduri Safety Measures, Iaşi County , As well as decent working conditions for administrative staff 8. Dialogue between state authorities and NPM As far as the contact with the public authorities in custody of persons deprived of their liberty, in the year 2016 were concerned: - meeting of the People's Advocate with the former Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Ioan Dragoş Tudorache; 63