MS patient misses appointments over lack of ambulance

A seriously incapacitated man has missed three hospital appointments due to the lack of a dedicated patient transfer vehicle service in Clare.

The family of MS sufferer 42-year-old Donnacha Rynne is frustrated with the lack of an adequate intermediate transfer vehicle.

Mr Rynne who also has mild cerebral palsy, cannot travel by car from Miltown Malbay for a regular hospital appointments at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick.