Recommendation: • to harmonize the Operational Procedure of involuntary admission and the Protocol with the provisions of Law no. 487/2002, republished and the Enforcement Guideline, so as to observe the provisions of art. 58 of Law no. 487/2002, republished, based on which the physician, after assessing the opportunity of involuntary admission, must immediately inform the concerned person and his/her legal representative regarding the decision of subjecting him/her to psychiatric treatment, as well as the proposal to subject him/her to involuntary admission; • to detail the required activities in case of involuntary admission - since the procedure is initiated if the patient refuses to sign the informed consent (which was presented for signature purposes upon admission) within the first 24-72 hours from admission and the procedure was not actually operational; ● During the examination of the files of patients at the Psychiatry Hospital of Murgeni, Vaslui county, some sponsorship contracts were identified by which the patients of the hospital sponsored the Murgeni TERAPSI Association with various sums of money (mostly varying from 2000 to 6000 RON). The money that the patients provided the association as sponsorship proceeded from the collection of the legal rights they had (invalidity pension, indemnity for degree of disability, etc.). It was found that 66 patients sponsored the association in 2017. The situation raised suspicions to the members of the visit team regarding the determination of patients in order to sponsor the TERAPSI Murgeni Association, since the Chairman of the TERAPSI Association was the hospital’s social worker. Based on art. 25 par. (1) of the Deontological Code no. 1 of December 14, 2007 of the profession of social worker, published in the Official Gazette issue 173/2008, social workers “avoid conflicts of interest in the exercise of their profession and promote an impartial approach of professional situations”. In this context, it was found that the staff of the MurgeniPsychiatry Hospital must not get involved in fundraising activities from hospital patients for the TERAPSI Association; Recommendation:to discard any suspicion regarding the freely expressed consent of the hospital patients when entering sponsorship contracts, since the chairman of the TERAPSI Association is the social worker of the hospital and, based on art. 25 par. (1) of the Deontological Code no. 1 of December 14, 2007 on the profession of social worker, published in the 112

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