Walk to highlight need for vital cath lab in Waterford

A band of people led by the sisters of a farmer who died in an ambulance on its way to Cork left the front door of University Hospital Waterford yesterday and walked along the last road he travelled on.

Tom Power’s death six months ago shocked the nation when it emerged he was transferred from the hospital in Waterford to Cork because its catheterisation lab was closed for the weekend.

Over Christmas, it emerged that the cath lab where emergency cardiac care is carried out was closed for two days due to an equipment fault.