Let’s have paramedics to save more lives

IRELAND does not have one paramedic working in the ambulance or fire services. There are too many unnecessary deaths and I blame the policies of the Department of Health and Children and the Department of Finance.

World health statistics show that paramedic services, through their ability to provide life-saving drug intervention in the field, save lives.

As Joe Sherlock pointed out in his plea not to have Mallow hospital downgraded, lives will be at risk if patients are not treated within the ‘golden hour’.