Mum moves 60km to ease sick daughter’s hospital trip

A mother whose daughter has a serious heart condition was so worried that an ambulance would not get her to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, on time that she moved 60km.

Leonna Smith, 26, says that if she had called an ambulance from her former home, in Navan, Co Meath, it would not have been allowed to bring her five-month-old daughter, Megan, directly to Crumlin and her doctors.

Leonna says the ambulance crew would have had to bring Megan to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, in Drogheda, from where she would be transferred to Dublin.