The President of the Association of Public Psychiatric Hospitals in Romania (ASPPR), doctor Lucian Paziuc, draws attention to a serious problem: many patients with mental illnesses are abandoned by the system and treated like "garbage". "A psychiatric hospital should not be a trash can where patients abandoned by the state are thrown away", declared Paziuc at the National Congress of Psychiatry in Sibiu. • Systemic problems and lack of inter-institutional support The President of the ASPPR