Hospital helipad is jeopardised by car park

A CAR park extension at a major west Cork hospital has jeopardised the future of a vital air ambulance landing pad, it was claimed last night.

A planned airlift from Bantry General Hospital had to be abandoned, two weeks ago, after a helicopter pilot decided it was not possible to execute a safe landing.

He was forced to set his aircraft down in Rowa Pharmaceutical’s private airfield, about two miles away, before taking the patient on board.