within the provisions of Law no. 458/2002 on the quality of potable water; ● the food unit was properly arranged and equipped. Visit teams of the Field regarding prevention of torture found a range of failures during the performance of their monitoring activities. In order to solve them, the People’s Advocate made recommendations to the management of the visited units, by means of a visit report. 83 recommendations were issued in the visit reports drawn up in 2018, of which 58 for the reports drawn up pursuant to visits performed in 2018 in the Psychiatry Hospital of Gataia, Timis county, the “Sf. Maria” Psychiatry Hospital of Vedea, Arges county, the Psychiatry Hospital of Murgeni, Vaslui county and the Psychiatry Hospital of Dragoiesti, Valcea county, as well as 25 recommendations for the reports drawn up pursuant to visits performed in 2017, in the Psychiatry Hospital of Dumbraveni, Vrancea county and the Psychiatry Hospital of Jebel, Timis county. * We mention, from the very beginning, the actions taken by the Field regarding prevention of torture, pursuant to the notice ex officio regarding the information published in the media in 2017, regarding the death of a patient at the Hospital for Psychiatry and Safety Measures of Jebel, Timis county. In this context, the People’s Advocate Institution decided to perform a spot visit on 01.11.2017, to the Hospital for Psychiatry and Safety Measures of Jebel, Timis county. The visit resulted in a Report stipulating that, given her psychological disorder, the patient had left the pavilion where she was admitted, taking advantage of the lack of attention of care staff. The nurse on duty found that the patient was missing. When the disappearance was found, actions were not taken in full compliance with the provisions of the procedure for the unannounced abandon of the Hospital; the physician on duty only informed the authorities and the patient’s daughter by phone. Based on the operational procedure, “for the cases of ill persons who cannot be recovered immediately after the hospital is left, the police will be informed both by phone and in writing”. The physician of the deceased patient mentioned that, on 29.06.2017, around 5.30 p.m., he had been informed by the physician on duty, by phone, that she had left 96