Man died en route to Cork as local cath lab closed

Calls for University Hospital Waterford’s (UHW) cath lab to operate 24/7 have re-emerged after a man died of a heart attack on his way to Cork in an ambulance.

Thomas Power, 40, died on Sunday afternoon about 30 minutes after leaving UHW by ambulance for Cork.

“If my brother had the heart attack today [Monday] he would be alive,” his sister, Catherine, told the Irish Examiner.