You wonder what all the fuss was about. I still hold with the accusation that the Juaneda group could have handled the closure of the Hospital d’Alcúdia better, but the fact that it plans to open a new facility in Alcúdia softens the blow. This new centre will be located in two buildings on the Camí del Mal Pas (this is the road leaving Alcúdia in the direction of Bonaire, La Victoria and also of course Mal Pas). As such, it won’t be that far from the closed-down hospital and will offer pretty much all that was available at the hospital save for in-patients and presumably also intensive care (which ceased at the hospital some months ago).
But why did Juaneda not just say what they had planned rather than letting the rumours drag on? Had they envisaged, all along, a new facility and shifting actual hospitalisation to Muro, and had said so, they could have saved a lot of headache, confusion and ill will. That patients will be assigned a bed down the road in Playa de Muro is hardly an inconvenience, and it was never going to be an inconvenience: Juaneda’s obfuscation allowed it to be presented as such.
The front page of the current “Mallorca Zeitung”, the German weekly, flags up the promise of riches for estate agents in the form of Russian buyers. I knew there was a reason why Anna Kournikova was a “face” of Mallorca. What better for some oligarch, pockets bulging with roubles and various other denominations, than to offshore the wonga into a Mallorcan dacha with its own helipad, beetroot plantation, vodka distillery, and lodgings for the bodyguards? Should be fun for someone trying to sort out that money trail. Should be fun for some of the estate agents with their translations as well. Russian? There are those that struggle with English, some of them run by the English. Comprises of, anyone?
QUIZ
Yesterday – “Fire”, The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown. Today’s title – in honour of Juaneda, where does this line come from?
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