‘Luck of God’ an ambulance was there for pregnant woman

Paramedics delivered a baby within 10 minutes of arriving at the scene of a call out this week — 50 kilometres from the nearest hospital.

But medical assistance would not have been available to the mother of the newborn on Monday if the alarm would have been raised 24 hours later.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has been urged to intervene in a rural ambulance crisis in Co Clare.