ERHA boss confident of Govt funding

The chief executive of the Eastern Regional Health Authority says he is optimistic that the Government will provide the €40m needed for its action plan to cut deaths from heart attack.

The ERHA is the country's largest health authority and the plan also aims to reduce the incidence of heart disease in the greater Dublin area.

Michael Lyons says the strategy of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation will be phased in between now and 2007.