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
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