Province pioneer

used by the hunting kennels were not wearing vests or protected in any way.

Injured dogs are tied to trees to rest while the hunt is underway. Sometimes the dogs manage to get loose to continue accompanying the hunters through the bush. On one occasion, several dogs found another tied up, alone and vulnerable, and they attacked it.

“We have seen animals that, due to their injuries, have been unable to hunt. Others with deep cuts in the neck, the flank pierced or the diaphragm exposed. We also have evidence that at least three dogs died of dehydration in one of the hunts,” said Aïda Gascón, director of AnimaNaturalis i. With this investigation, AnimaNaturalis and CAS International have launched a new campaign, #StopCaza, and ask supporters to sign the petition at www.perros decaza.org.

ALICANTE’S Dr Balmis Hospital is undergoing a surgical programme and is now considered a pioneer in the province for thoracic surgery.

This is thanks to its new Da Vinci robot system. Robotic surgery represents the latest evolution of minimally invasive surgery, after laparoscopy, in which the surgeon does not operate with his hands, but instead manipulates a remote robot from a console installed inside the operating room.

The head of the Thoracic Surgery Service, Doctor Jorge Cerezal, confirmed: “With respect to open surgery, in mini­ mally invasive surgery the patient experiences less pain, fewer complications and blood loss. The hospital stay is reduced and it also offers a better aesthetic result, because it is performed with three or 4 8 mm incisions (compared to 2030 cm for open surgery). All of this has an impact on the patient being able to return to his daily life sooner.” Another advantage of the robot is that it provides three hands to the surgeon who is at the console “because with one manipulator you handle one instrument and with the other, you can control two at the same time.”

AN Elche beach was temporarily closed on Friday, July 14, after it was found to contain contaminants.

The councillor for Tourism, Irene Ruiz, reported via Local Police channels that “From 12 noon and by indication of the ministry of health, the beach has been temporarily closed at Carabassi, specifically the section between footbridges 1 and 3, due to contamination of residual water.”

Ruiz said “the analyses that are carried out on a