Music from Noel Mc Loughlin Trad arr. Ireland , Noel Mc Loughlin Tripp in Spain Costa Blanca

Last week in Benidorm a doctor who works in a health centre in the town treated a woman who came into the emergency department of the Tomas Ortuno clinic. The woman was treated by the on call doctor and was given an appointment for the following day as a follow up to the treatment.The woman had been examined and a diagnosis made .The diagnosis did not include sending the woman to a hospital for further treatment as it was not deemed necessary. The woman left the surgery but then returned and

Two young Moroccan boys were discovered by the police walking along a road near Elche last week .The boys were aged nine and twelve.They were both suffering injuries received in a car crash. It appears that they were on their way to Almeria to pick up a ferry to take them home to Morocco.The family was travelling along the A-7 in a Seat Cordoba when it appears that the driver lost control of the car and it veered down a ravine,The car and the occupants slipped down the ravine by several metres

A 45 year old Algerian man from Teulada on the Costa Blanca died on the way to Denia hospital last week .He was suffering from swine flu and he also had a serious kidney condition which meant that he needed dialysis..He had been receiving dialysis since 1993 and had already had an unsuccessful transplant.Doctors have also said that he suffered from an underactive thyroid condition. He was first trated in the A and E centre in Teulada but during his transfer to the hospital in Denia he died.The

Not just any old car was stolen in Denia last week but the official car of the German Minister for Health .It was stolen from outside the villa where she was staying with a friend.Ulla Schmidt is the head of the country’s health authority and her Mercedes S-Class car was forced open and the keys were taken too. The car had been driven from Germany by her chauffer while she travelled by plane.This was a move which has been much criticised by her parliamentary colleagues.A spokesperson has comme