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No, I haven’t started reading the Daily Mirror, it was in La Voz de Almería.

I can’t find the article quoted on the Daily Mirror website, but it seems that in a recent survey “La Inmaculada” hospital in Huercal Overa was voted second only to the University Hospital in Alicante for quality of treatment and patient care.

Rather a shocking story from the Poniente Hospital de Almeria- it seems that a group of “subsaharians” brought in a friend who seemed to be suffering from convulsions and hallucinations, a 25 year old man with initials K.K.

It seems that over the last few days his behaviour had been going downhill, having got into several fights, until he reached a point where he was forcibly taken to hospital by his friends concerned at his behaviour and attacks.

The doctors in the Hospital Poniente (El Ejido) gave him the once over, some medication and sent him on his way without taking any further action.

Less than an hour later, he viciously killed a fellow Nigerian with a pole by smashing his head in, and proceeded to seriously hurt 7 other people who managed to hold him down until the Guardia turned up. It appears that he was in the grip of a serious paranoid depression, or as the newspapers politely put it, he was un loco.

This took place in the Paraje El Ayudante, just outside El Ejido. The Police believe that the murderer had no previous connection with his victim. He is currently in police custody awaiting a judge. Police are also interviewing members of staff of the hospital to ascertain the true version of events.

Full story in Spanish or translated version.

Alejandro Miguel Asensio Ruiz, a 33 year old plasterer from Almería, was actually on the operating table at a Granada hospital, about to start the second operation of his gastric band reduction, when the surgeon smelt cigarrette smoke on his breath and cancelled the operation.

Alejandro had been waiting 6 years for this operation, after the first operation fitted a gastric band that helped him loose over 100 kilos. However, the second operation was to remove excess skin that still impeded his movement, an operation considered to be an integral part of the overall process. (Whilst in Marbella we were involved with a company in Alabama that found clients for these processes, so I know plenty of gruesome stories about weight loss!)

He was supposed to be on a strict diet, no smoking and exercise.However, when the surgeon spotted that he still smoked, he declared that he had obviously lied on his prereport and threw him out.