That’s great, one big happy family, the obese and the anorexics all in the same centre.

Psychologically this will have a reverse action, pushing anorexics in a worse mental state by seeing their obese fellow patients. And vice versa for the obese. This is psychologically abusive.

[Daphne – dcg@proximuspr.com]

“A survey carried out by the National Statistics Office (NSO) shows that 0.9% of the 2,008 persons interviewed were currently suffering from an eating disorder” So 18 people was the deciding factor in spending 2 million of charity money?

With regard to the Italian way of doing things, I’ve heard quite a few terrible things on the health system from relatives living there.

Moreover, being a ‘dottore’ or ‘dottoressa’ in Italy doesn’t really mean anything more than being a university graduate. (And yet at least one Maltese lecturer insists on being called as such because s/he obtained an Italian degree – which is no great achievement given the reputation of some entities willing to loosen up with a few extra euro – but I digress).