The general objective of the project is to strengthen the capacity to manage the COVID 19 health crisis of the public institutions in Dolj county that provide social assistance services to vulnerable persons, in a residential regime, by ensuring a timely and effective response to the health crisis. The project aims to equip the medical and social units in Dolj county (UMS Amarastii de Jos, UMS Brabova, UMS Bechet, UMS Cetate, UMS Melinesti, UMS Plenita, UMS Sadova), of public residential social centers for vulnerable groups (old people/persons with disabilities/children, etc.) within the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection Dolj with protection equipment: protective masks, disposable gloves, suits, including hood and footwear protection, botosei, caps, disposable waterproof gowns, protective visor, biocides, solutions needed to ensure hygiene and disinfection, other protective materials. These institutions are subordinated to Dolj County Council and provide social assistance services in the residency of vulnerable persons, through specialised personnel. Staff work on a permanent basis in the context of the COVID 19 crisis (14 days of confinement at the workplace, 14 days of confinement at home). Currently, the level of equipping the eight institutions with protective materials is low and, as a consequence, their capacity to manage the health crisis is very low from the perspective of prevention and protection, as this protection must be provided, both to resident beneficiaries (724 persons) and to staff (868 persons). Given the extremely high infectivity of the virus, which cannot be kept under control in the absence of specialised protective equipment, both for staff and for residents in the 8 institutions, it is necessary to take measures to prepare these units that provide social assistance services in the residence of vulnerable persons for the management of infections with the new virus, including active surveillance, early detection and isolation of cases, in order to prevent the continuous spread of infection in Dolj county. These institutions also need to be prepared to manage every suspected or confirmed case of infection with the new coronavirus, so it is necessary to use specialised protective equipment until the affected persons are transferred to the specialised health units. A serious problem is the fact that many people have symptoms similar to Covid 19 infection, and the period until the arrival of the test results is a few days, during which the use of specific medical protective equipment, proposed to be purchased through this project, are the first elements of maximum importance in the management of a critical situation. Preventing the spread