About 10% of chest pain admissions to hospitals are related to drug use, heath committee told

Cardiologists see people once or twice a week coming in with cocaine-related chest pain or heart attacks.

About 10% of heart patients admitted to one of the country's largest hospitals are suffering from illegal drug use with “one or two” cocaine-related heart patients weekly, the Oireachtas Health Committee has heard.

Doctors in the Irish Cardiac Society also described how patients can wait up to two years for scans due to shortages of specialist staff.