Parents of toddler who was unresponsive for an hour given 'mixed messages' about ambulance location
“Another 2 minutes and we would have been dealing with a very different outcome,” the parents were told at the Cavan hospital.
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“Another 2 minutes and we would have been dealing with a very different outcome,” the parents were told at the Cavan hospital.
Minister Denis Naughten said the service would be a great help in rural Ireland.
The 75-year-old collapsed in Navan on Friday afternoon.
It took almost 40 minutes for the ambulance to reach the 25 year old.
Another ambulance, manned by just one person, responded first – but was unable to bring the man for the medical attention he needed.
Denis Naughten TD has reacted to a HSE report that finds Ireland is too rural for the service to meet its targets.
Joe Higgins said that their presence at peaceful protests could lead to slower response times to other crimes.
HSE plans to take back control of the service emerged last month but firefighers are concerned about a drop in the level of service if they hand over the reins.
The NAS noted that the controversial OVR units were used over 600 times so far this year.
RTÉ’s Prime Time programme documented a litany of failures of shortcomings in the National Ambulance Service.
Deputy Denis Naughten said that the Republic of Ireland has a third of the amount of ambulances that Northern Ireland has.
The ambulance initially dispatched to the scene in Dublin was diverted en route to a crash on the N11.
The family of a man who died after a 25 minute wait for an ambulance were in the public gallery to hear contributions.
Cutbacks in the number of personnel and vehicles have caused ‘serious delays’, according to the The National Ambulance Service Representative Association
In 65 per cent of cases, ambulances aren’t arriving at the scene within the 19 minute response time set-out by the health watchdog.
James Reilly is to come up with alternative ways of measuring the performance of the National Ambulance Service.