'Bizarre' drop off in suspected stroke patients

Stroke patient Roger Timon with his mother Derbhile. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

A doctor with the expertise to save stroke patients from a life of disability has described as “bizarre” the drop-off in patients attending Cork University Hospital (CUH) with stroke symptoms during February and March.

Consultant interventional neuroradiologist Gerry Wyse said: “We’ve had a very bizarre period from a stroke point of view, in that it went incredibly quiet in February and March and then we were exceptionally busy in April.