Threat to cut city’s ambulance cover to just two

AMBULANCE cover in Cork city on a Saturday night could be reduced to just two ambulances between 8pm and 8am, under cost-cutting plans by the HSE.

Paramedics, represented by SIPTU, have warned that “lives will be lost under the new plan to cut the ambulances by up to 50% on the busiest night of the week”.

SIPTU members have already threatened to ballot for industrial action over the proposed cuts.