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Youghal Ambulance

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  • 29-07-2011 10:59am
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    Deise Tom
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    http://www.youghalonline.com/2011/07/13/save-youghal-ambulance/


    Our politions seem very quite on this. I wonder if they are doing anything in public or in the back ground to hep fight save the Ambulance Service in Youghal.

    Some might say what has Youghal to do with us, but the Ambulance there serves as back up to the service which operates from Dungarvan and will come into the West Waterford area if and when needed, just like Clonmel, Fermoy and Ardkeen Ambulances when called upon.


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    Big Lar
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    They are trying to organise a protest in Youghal today.

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=262776803738755


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    CDfm
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    I am on holiday there and a local was talking about it and said a local cottage hospital was turned into a nursing home by the HSE
    ‘Lives will be lost’, say locals

    By Christy Parker
    Saturday, July 30, 2011
    MORE THAN 500 people formed a 600-metre chain in Youghal yesterday as they protested HSE plans to replace the town’s ambulance service with a first responder paramedic car.
    Local politicians, including Sinn Féin TD Sandra McLellan and Fianna Fáil Mayor Eoin Coyne, joined the participants at the Foxhole Business Park, two miles from the town centre.

    The protesters waved placards and chanted "Save our ambulance" as passing traffic hooted horns in support. Long traffic tailbacks formed when the demonstrators marched half a mile to the Rhincrew roundabout and back.

    Emily Fitzgerald, a 64-year-old grandmother, said she was protesting because "none of us know when we might need an ambulance".

    Nearby, 19-year-old supermarket worker Katie Murphy said it was "a disgrace that someone might have to wait up to an hour for an ambulance".

    Feargal Nolan, 43, a UCC equipment engineer and father-of-three, said a town in a cachment area of 40,000 and 50km from Cork city "cannot afford to lose an ambulance". "We pay taxes and levies and they say cutbacks won’t affect frontline services," he said. "Then they take away our ambulance," he fumed.

    "A rapid response vehicle manned by a medical technician is not the same as an ambulance manned by ad

    Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/lives-will-be-lost-say-locals-162689.html#ixzz1TzneFS1P

    It is a bit of an odd policy that towns are being asked to give up their hospitals and then their ambulance cover gets cut.

    What message does that send to other towns.


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