Cork man who suffered stroke swimming in Greece brought back to CUH

Jonathan Tobin, 42,  from Youghal spent six weeks on life support in a Heraklion hospital, where brain scans and MRIs showed no brain activity
Cork man who suffered stroke swimming in Greece brought back to CUH

The HSE chartered a Vienna-based air ambulance to bring Jonathan Tobin home under the Government’s Treatment Abroad scheme.

A Cork man who has been in a coma on the Greek island of Crete since July has been repatriated back to Ireland following an emotional fundraising appeal by his mother.

Jonathan (Jiles) Tobin, from Youghal, is now being treated in Cork University Hospital, where he remains in a vegetative state

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