‘I’d be less a child if she had cardiac arrest after 5pm’

If Willie Doyle’s daughter had been an hour later getting to Waterford hospital, he doubts if she would be alive today.

“My daughter [Jennifer Pheasey, 41] had a cardiac arrest at 4.30pm on a Friday. We were told that if it had happened an hour later she wouldn’t have survived. I’d be less a daughter, her children would be less a mother, and her husband would be less a wife,” he told the Irish Examiner.

“She had been moving things earlier in the day and thought it was just a muscle pain but she went to her GP. The GP sent her straight over to casualty in Waterford hospital.