30% of the people that were hospitalized due to mental deficiencies, can be reintegrated to the society, but it doesn’t happened because of their families’ rejection. According to the Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family, this category of patients is held forcibly hospitalized for an average of 10 years, reports Info-Prim Neo. Natalia Popescu, head of the Residential Services Department of the Ministry, told a meeting of the Investigative Journalists’ Club that the people who benefit from these hospitals’ services are examined once a year. Most of them are being serviced for free, because they could not allocate any funds to the social insurances budget due to their health issues. Some people are sent to psychiatric hospitals as a result of court ruling, being charged with disturbance of public order or having done other actions that were consequently categorized as violations. These people are discharged only after the forensic examination allows it, and only in the case when there are people who can take responsibility for the ex-patients after their discharge. The total capacity of our country’s psychiatric hospitals is of 1,665, and the Budget allocated about 3,000 lei per month for one patient. Thus, over 6 million lei per year are needed only for the upkeep of the patients. The authorities, however, claim that the expenses rise up to tens of millions of lei, because there are many other necessities beside the upkeep of patients. In 2011, only 15 out of all patients were discharged, 6 of whom were discharged with the help of a social project.