Patients left stranded by changes to free transport scheme

ANNE-MARIE Healy is only 39 years of age but due to chronic rheumatoid arthritis, she is confined to a wheelchair.

She attends an orthopedic consultant at least three times a year, as well as an anaesthetist, pain therapists and urologist.

These appointments take Anne-Marie, who lives in Glenamoy in north Mayo, to hospitals in Sligo, Leitrim and Dublin.