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Ibiza Gets Its Radiotherapy Can Misses Hospital have announced that the new Radiotherapy unit could be treating patients by the 24th December 2015, certainly before the end of the year. At a press conference yesterday Fernando Barturen, of the UTE Policlinica Miaramar-Juaneda, reported that the project will not be delayed, “not even by one day”. Ibiza and Formentera Contra el Cáncer launch lung cancer awareness campaign.
The Medical Director of inpatient care, Pedro Fernández spoke of the progress of installing the radiotherapy unit and linear accelerator which arrived on the island on Sunday and was being assembled yesterday. The unit will need a ‘settling in period’ until Thursday and after that the Consejo de Segurid and Nuclear Technicians will have to give it their approval
before use. The Oncology Department of Can Misses is already considering which patients will be the first to undergo treatment, thereby avoiding their usual trip to Son Espases in Palma, which is a further ordeal for those already weak. Barturen explained that the recruitment process had already started for profes(Continued on page 7)
Tanit, The Original Illegal Immigrant? It seems that Ibiza’s famous image of the Goddess Tanit may be that of a Greek imposter. Research undertaken by archaeologist and director of the Puig des Molins Monográfico Museum, Benjamí Costa, has determined that the most common representation of Tanit is in fact far more likely to be that of the Greek goddess Deméter or possibly her daughter Koré. His findings are based upon analysis of the clay which is said to be of Sicilian origin, and modelled in Greece. Though trade between the Greek and Balearic islands explains the Tanit bust arriving on our shores, according to Costa the Greeks artisans who sculpted the piece would have had no reason to consider rendering a work of Tanit. It appears that our icon is nothing more than a fake, perhaps passed off by Ibiza’s first looky looky men. If so, it seems the adage is true, “Beware of Greeks bearing Gifts”.