HSE responds to ambulance query Leeside

It follows an incident in the city at the weekend.

The HSE has issued the timeline of events to RedFM News after the ambulance response time for an elderly man in the city this week was criticised...  

The statement confirms that an emergency call was received for a 75-year-old at 4.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and that call was triaged using the Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System which prioritises calls.

The nearest available emergency ambulance was dispatched to Kent Station and arrived at the scene at 10 to 5 

The patient was treated and stabilised by paramedics on arrival,  before been transferred to Cork University hospital 

However, elderly rights campaigner Paddy O'Brien was in the station when the elderly man fell and told RedFM News that the 999 dispatcher had to be told, in two separate phone calls,  where the train station is located in the city before an ambulance was finally dispatched 

Paddy has described the 25 minute wait on an ambulance in the country's second largest city as appalling and says he felt there was a lot of time wasting on the phone to the dispatcher. 

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