MALLORCA TODAY - Introduction of new health card criticised

The introduction of the new Balearics health card, which costs each patient ten euros to renew, has been criticised because of the lack of organisation and processing which requires patients to have to go back and forth from their health centre to their bank in order to pay the charge, returning to the health centre with confirmation and then having to go through the process all over again. (It sounds remarkably like the farcical way in which residency applications are dealt with.) The lack of planning and the swiftness of the introduction of the card without the full system having been implemented correctly is compounded by the fact that the actual cost of the card is a mere 1.46 euros.