The 061 emergency telephone number handled more than 9,000 emergencies last year in Ibiza

The activity of urgent sanitary transport in Ibiza increases and descends in Formentera.

The urgent sanitary transport service of the telephone number 061, of the Balearic Govern, took care last year of 9,030 emergencies in the island of Ibiza, which supposes a 4 percent more than in 2004. More than one third (3,122, which supposes an average of 5.5 every day) were classified as ` emergencies´, which means that the doctors understood that risk for the patients' life existed Although the number of this type of transport descended in a 5 percent with respect to 2004. The activity increased, by 10%, when classified as ` urgent´, in which a there was no special risk to human life.

In Formentera, however, the number of urgencies taken care of by the 061 descended significantly in 2005. The 061 made 244 performances of emergency (0.4 percent less than in 2004) and 352 urgent ones (what supposes a 17 percent less than the previous year). The records of the 061, presented yesterday in Palma by the manager of urgent medical attention, Dolors Riart, also includes the number of helicopter pick-ups between Ibiza and Palma.

Medical consultations by telephone are not divided by islands, the number of telephone medical attentions that have taken place through the power station of 061 (in which the patients can request support with no need to go to a medical center), has also increased. According to Dolors Riart, this fact is due, she states, to the fact that the service "more known".

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Ibiza : Santa Gertrudis and San Mateu will have internet centers

The department of New Technologies and Agriculture of the Consell Insular in Ibiza has announced that it will start building tele-centros in Santa Gertrudis and Sant Mateu , although they have not given any dates.

Formentera and Sant Joan already have these facilities, the free internet access centers are oriented towards promoting and to facilitating access to new technologies for people living in the rural Ibiza.

These facilities are equipped with eleven lastest generation computers as well as several courses in D-ROM. Plus, they count on the attendance of a manager who helps people to get started with the computers. At the moment there are almost 500 people enrolled in the tele-centros; 230 in the one of Sant Joan and 260 in the one of Formentera. These people have participated in different courses lke initiation to computer science. These courses are as much for young people as for older, secretarial courses can be made after the initiation, as well as accounting and photography, among others. Half of the assistants are under 20 years old, but there are students of 70 and 75 as well, that learn with great enthusiasm.

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8 of 10 jobs in Ibiza are occupied by foreigners

77.4 percent of new workers registered in the Balears between 2001 and 2005 are foreigners, according to an analysis of the labor market, and the population born outside of Spain made by the conselleria of Labor of the Balearic Government.

Ibiza and the rest of Balears finished last year with 421,246 workers affiliated to the Social Security, almost 37,000 more than four years ago.

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