Irish ambulance response time exceeds 2 hours in over 100 life-threatening cases this year
It has taken an ambulance over two hours to arrive at a life-threatening emergency more than 100 times this year.Under HSE targets, an ambulance should arrive at the scene of a life-threatening heart or respiratory arrest within 19 minutes in 75 per cent of cases.READ MORE: Ireland weather: Met Eireann pinpoint return of dry weather as washout week ahead forecast
The worst – three hours and 16.11 minutes – was in Co Leitrim, with the HSE’s National Ambulance Service blaming the “distance” for the delay.In this case, the HSE put the extremely long waits down to the “volume of work” paramedics were under.The HSE says these figures represent only a fraction of the emergencies dealt with, with 57,240 life-threatening calls in the five-month period.
But Mr Hall said: “It’s not credible that no one’s condition, or no one’s pain level, worsened as a result of waiting. “This is a devastating figure. It’s a life and death indicator of the performance of the emergency services under the current Government. The Government are centralising hospital services in fewer and fewer locations. This means ambulances have to travel further.
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