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Fast lane HUNDREDS of readers have been joined by expat councillors to support the Olive Press U-turn campaign helping British residents swap their licences for Spanish ones. Meanwhile various Facebook groups and even a leading fintech guru have backed our campaign, which is gathering speed. It comes tragically however, after one female expat allegedly committed suicide when she found herself isolated in a rural part of Andalucia. The woman, who had recently lost her husband, told friends her life was no longer worth living. Among suggestions to put pressure on both the Spanish and British governments, one reader, Andrew Clark suggested a road protest. “Why don't we all protest by driving slowly around Malaga and other Spanish towns? It seemed to work well for the lorry drivers!” The UK ambassador meanwhile continued to insist ‘an agreement is close’.
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STOP THIS NOW! PICTURE SHOCKER: ‘Hero’ grandfather kidnapped by family after nine weeks of ‘captivity, neglect and starvation’ at hospital
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A BELEAGUERED hospital has come under the spotlight yet again after a family had to ‘literally kidnap’ their own relative when he received ‘appalling treatment’ for nine weeks. Staff at Torrevieja hospital have been slammed after they allowed Swedish expat Bo-Eskil Svensson to suffer horrific pain ‘from neglect’. The 80-year-old, who has since died, suffered appalling bed sores from infections, due to a lack of care, claim his family. “This hospital killed my dad”, Mia Mooseberg told the Olive Press this week. “They starved him in a Covid ward, confined him to bed and held him
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captive for nine weeks,” she added. S h e claimed the form e r fireman had developed horrific bedsores because he hadn’t b e e n turned over. They had grown so deep they became infected.
HORRIFIC: Bo was left frail, emaciated and suffering from infected bedsores Despite ordering a private ambulance treatment wasn’t covered by his insur- they were so alarmed they took a series of horrific pictures, showing the shockto transport him home to his native ance. Sweden, they were unable to get him When he was transferred to the nearby ing level of malnutrition and neglect. University Hospital on December 21, After his wife, 79, sat with him for four discharged. “So we decided to kidnap him and his nightmare began, insisted his lov- further days without a bed for herself, daughter Mia insisted they ‘decided to drive him 3,000kms back to a hospital ing wife Barbro. Seeing that her husband of 60 years kidnap him’. that would care for him properly.” She continued: “Doctors back home was receiving such poor care, she paid They hatched a plan for two other were completely speechless about how for a private ambulance to take him grandchildren to fly to Spain and met up with Barbro’s friend to rescue him. an EU hospital neglected a person in back to Sweden. However, when collection was ar- In a slick operation, the group ‘borthis way. ranged, staff prevented the move, rowed’ a hospital wheelchair and careclaiming he had Covid-19. fully got him out of bed, out of the ward Neglect It led to the grandfather, who had and into the family’s campervan. “Days later at home, he died because of served as a UN peacekeeper in Leba- They then drove the 3,000 km journey non, being left in complete isolation that neglect.” Continues on Page 5 Bo had been admitted to a private hos- for EIGHT days without food or fluids, pital with a urinary tract infection on insisted his family. December 6, last year, but subsequent When they came to see him in January Opinion Page 6
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