Weekender Alicante North Issue 109

10 FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER 2019
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Looking out
for victims
THE Valencian Communities
National Police Corps
have said that they will
provide 24 hour monitoring
for women who are
judged to be at “extreme
risk” of sexist violence in
the region.
Gabriela Bravo, the Minister
of Justice, made the
announcement last week as
by Simon Russell
also to personally consent
to the measures. If required
her and any children can be
housed for free by social or
judicial services.
Other measures include
three new specialised offices
for domestic violence
cases in Castellon, Alicante
part of a raft of plans to combat
and Elche, following on
gender violence in the
Community.
To qualify for the help a
woman will have to have confirmation
of the danger from
the judicial authority and
from the existing one in Valencia
City which has dealt
with 257 cases in the five
months since it opened, 137
of which have led to official
complaints being filed.
Home alone mum questioned
by Simon Russell
AN off duty National Police officer in the
Valencian town of Xativa alerted colleagues
after noticing a young child with
her legs sticking through the railings of a
third floor terrace, obviously in distress.
The patrol assessed that there was an extreme
danger and, after there was no reply
to their knocks on the door, managed to force
entry into the property.
They moved the unharmed child, who was
on her own in the flat, to a safe place.
Her mother returned 45 minutes later
and has provisionally been charged with
child abandonment.
Free cancer
check-up
HEALTH practitioner
Quironsalud has been
offering men aged 45 or
over free prostate cancer
checks from their clinics
in Alicante, Torrevieja
and Valencia as part of
World Prostate Cancer
Day (September 15).
Males who have a family
history of the disease were
entitled to the check from
the age of 40. The procedure
is a simple blood test which
analyses proteins to see if
there is anything untoward.
by Simon Russell
Prostate cancer is the second
biggest killer for male
cancer sufferers across Europe
and around 25,000 new
cases are diagnosed in Spain
each year.
However if caught early
there is a 90% success rate
with treatment.
Just this week singer Rod
Stewart told how he had
won a two year battle with
the disease and urged men
to get tested.