Town pleads with HSE to ensure adequate ambulance cover

A Co Cork town rocked by the second death of a child in two months has pleaded with the Government and the HSE to review the region’s ambulance cover.

Vakaris Martinaitis died in Cork University Hospital (CUH) on Wednesday — just days before his second birthday — from injuries sustained in a fall from an upstairs window at his home in Midleton.

Neighbour Kevin Hennessy, who rang emergency services, claims he was told there was no ambulance in the area at the time. He drove Vakaris, under Garda escort, to CUH.