Plans to modernise the ambulance service in north Cork will begin next month.

YOUR recent editorial (Jan 28) rightly sounds alarm at the escalation in suicide rates in rural areas.

A NEW plan to airlift critically ill patients from isolated parts of Clare for treatment in regional hospitals could substantially improve survival rates, a local accident and emergency consultant has revealed.

PATIENT safety is compromised when too many patients are kept on trolleys in emergency departments according to a consultant in emergency medicine at the Midwest Regional Hospital in Limerick.

SECONDARY schools in Limerick yesterday took part in a one-day life-saving course.

PEOPLE who suffer heart attacks in this country have a dismal chance of survival due to a lack of equipment and expertise, a conference for members of the emergency services was told yesterday.