What a great joy Theresa Grima of Attard must have experienced on realising that her 80-year-old husband had, so rapidly, recovered.

I recently wrote about the marvellous achievement of Donald Dalli, aided by a team of fellow researchers who are together in the developmentof a prospective artificial hip-replacement method, which promises success shortly.

Unfortunately, way back in 2012, I had been subjected to the insertion of three cannulated large screws in place of the normal hip replacement, followed by expert therapists whose treatment had been cut short by a rather ill-mannered ward head who had insisted on discharging me “on account of shortage of beds”, which at the time had been widely reported also in this newspaper.