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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 the country. 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 Spain’s coastal 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
EXCLUSIVE By Simon Wade
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 on the Costa Blanca 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.
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“They starved him in a Covid ward, confined him to bed and held him captive for nine weeks,” she added. She claimed the former fireman had developed horrific bedsores because he hadn’t been turned over. They had grown so deep they became Making in-roads, page 6/7 infected. Despite ordering a private ambulance to transport him home for dogs and cats in to his naSpain!! Get the right tive Sweden, they healthcare cover were unable to get The ONLY ENGLISH VET him discharged. CLINICA VETERINARIA “So we BENDINAT ided tel: 971 404 459 dtoe ckidnap www.vet-bendinat.com him and
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HORRIFIC: Bo was left frail, emaciated and suffering from infected bedsores drive him 3,000kms back to a hospital that would care for him properly.” She continued: “Doctors back home were completely speechless about how an EU hospital neglected a person in this way. “Days later at home, he died because of that neglect.” Bo had been admitted to a private hospital with a urinary tract infection on December 6, last year, but subsequent treatment wasn’t covered by his insurance. When he was transferred to the nearby University Hospital on December 21, his nightmare began, insisted his loving wife Barbro.
Seeing that her husband of 60 years was receiving such poor care, she paid for a private ambulance to take him back to Sweden. However, when collection was arranged, staff prevented the move, claiming he had Covid-19.
of horrific pictures, showing the shocking level of malnutrition and neglect. After his wife, 79, sat with him for four further days without a bed for herself, daughter Mia insisted they ‘decided to kidnap him’. They hatched a plan for two other grandchildren to fly to Spain and met up with Barbro’s friend to rescue him. Isolation In a slick operation, the group ‘borIt led to the grandfather, who had rowed’ a hospital wheelchair and careserved as a UN peacekeeper in Leba- fully got him out of bed, out of the ward non, being left in complete isolation and into the family’s campervan. for EIGHT days without food or fluids, They then drove the 3,000 km journey insisted his family. home and into the care of the emerWhen they came to see him in January gency room at Karlskrona hospital, they were so alarmed they took a series near the family home in Karlshamn. After multiple attempts at trying to get her complaints heard at Torrevieja Hospital, Mia has now shared her experience on social media. “It is appalling what they did to this lovely man, who was a hero - a fireman who saved many people,” Mia explained this week. “I hope our tragic story can save someone else.” One of the Facebook sites she Home delivery turned to was set up by British exServicio a domicilio pat George Marshall, whose mum had also been ‘handcuffed and Set Meal abused’ in the same hospital in 19.95€ her final days, as reported in the drink Olive Press. included “This is exactly why I created this group,” Marshall told the Olive Press this week. “I thought what C/.Fabrica, 5 Bajos, they did to my mother last year Santa Catalina, Palma (+34) 971 592 535 was a one-off, but no. the death certificates.” Avenida de la Playa, No4, So far, the hospital has refused to Palmanova, Calviá comment. (+34) 971 68 04 94 Opinion Page 6