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19 LETTERS & EDITORIAL maltatoday | SUNDAY • 15 JULY 2018 Clarification needed over fertility drugs BEING a total ignoramus of the medical aspects of the IVF Bill just approved by Parliament, I depend on what I gather from authoritative medical sources to detect any possi- bly overlooked risk when some un- necessary drugs may be prescribed during fertility treatment. In the UK, fertility doctors and MPs are currently staging a petition to crack down on IVF clinics putting lives at risk by over prescribing drugs to harvest up to four times more eggs women than necessary. Perhaps a ministerial statement is solic- ited to clarify the treatment women actu- ally receive in Malta. John Azzopardi Zabbar More frenzied environmental destruction THE tree uprooting frenzy continues unabated. There are so many fronts being attacked that it is hard to keep up. But the agenda is clear. Find any excuse you can to rid Malta of trees. Do so now before The Protection of Trees Act is amended and before Awtorità Ambjent is established. Unless the authorities stop reason- ing that a tree is a liability, this de- struction will go on. PD is in favour of road safety and road embellishment, but can what is happening actually be called em- bellishment? There is a pattern. Which architectural firm is being consulted? This latest tree victim in Pietà hap- pens to tip at that crazy angle simply because someone sliced through its roots to pass services some time back. Ask anybody with even a mod- icum of botanical knowledge, and they will agree that that is the reason why this has occurred. The result is that the tree may tip over cata- strophically. So let's eradicate. PD notes that the architecture framing of the little 'piazza' by the trees is being eliminated and the piazza is to be reduced to a small traffic island. Evidently the size of the parking slot for persons with disabilities is larger than the required norm. Why is a parking slot designed to have the vehicle reversing into it? Wouldn't this cause stoppage of traf- fic? Could it be to 'reserve' a parking slot for larger vehicles delivering to the area? Is there someone being accommodated? Who stands to gain the most from this 'embellishment'? Such measures have already been noted at the Luqa-Qormi traffic ar- rangement that leads to San Vinċenz and Ħal Farruġ. The intention was to ease the traffic flow but exclusive space was created for use by an en- terprise, rather than used to have two-way carriageways. PD demands an explanation from Transport Malta. Public land should never be disposed of to accommo- date private interests. Marcus Lauri Partit Demokratiku Mikiel Galea Letters & Clarifications