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Issue 622
16 - 22 Sept 2011
British Consul backs new youth initiative THE BRITISH Consul, Paul Rodwell announced his backing of a new youth initiative aimed at young people in the area. p5
How to prepare for divorce in Spain about 1.2 million marriages have been dissolved by divorce since the Divorce Law was passed in Spain p27
Don’t just clean your pool, swim in it... with clean solar energy! FOR MOST people, the swimming season does not extend beyond June, July and August, but would you like to extend your swimming season to seven months of the year instead of just three? Read more on p32
Showbiz Goss
Read what Peter Taylor has to say on Britney Spears, the new Bond movie and Keith Richards p46
Super Sergio Sergio Aguero may have cost City £36 million but he could end up being one of the signings of the season p54
Liz Bunce’s grief is still visible yet she is starting to move on with her life
Do they really care? by Julie Day LIZ BUNCE contacted RTN after reading the recent story of Hungarian-born Andrea Toth who is suing Torrevieja hospital for alleged negligence after her husband, Germán González, died following a supposedly simple operation. Liz’s own husband Fred died on 4th March this year after losing a sixmonth battle against cancer. She feels that his case was mismanaged from the start, with alleged misdiagnosis, lack of information and a total lack of care by the nursing staff at the hospital. Losing a loved one to a terminal illness is a sad and heart-wrenching experience, made worse
when the health system you trust to provide answers, treatment and support lets you down and turns the end of a life, something that we all wish could be peaceful and without suffering, into a horrific and terrifying ordeal. WARNING Liz acknowledges that Fred would probably still have died. However, she would like to warn readers of her experience so that other families can avoid similar distress and the traumatising memories that haunt Liz on a daily basis. “I’ve been through months of hell,” she said, “and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. It was a truly scary time. I felt they were torturing him rather than helping him.”
Fred, an active and healthy man living on the Costa Blanca since 2006, began to feel discomfort, as if he had a lump in the prostate area, around the end of September 2010. He visited his GP in Quesada, was given a cursory examination and was told he was “constipated,” before being prescribed some laxative sachets, despite informing the doctor that he ate a healthy diet full of fruit and vegetables. Liz feels that this is where the whole horror and neglect began, becoming steadily worse. Appointments were given for blood tests two weeks later, with a wait for results. He was diagnosed at the end of October with a “severe urine infection.” Continued on page 3