The Balearic Government's Health Minister, Aina Castillo, carried out a practical demonstration in Eivissa of how the new, pioneering, electronic prescription system is now working on the island. Costing 1.5 million€ & incorporating 40 chemists on the island, ill persons on the Pitiuses will be able to get prescriptions by presenting their health card to the chemists rather than getting a paper prescription from the doctor. This will particularly benefit over 2000 chronically sick persons who need repeat prescriptions as they will not have to go so often to see their doctor just to get their repeat prescriptions once the their illness has initially diagnosed & the treatment prescribed & recorded in a central data bank. This information will be then accessed when the patient presents their health card at the chemists with the health card acting in a similar way to a credit card & showing what medicines the patient needs & when they were last issued.