Galway Bay fm newsroom - The HSE says a 130 kilometre ambulance call out to Connemara was in line with the international medical priority dispatch system.
An ambulance was sent from Ballina and travelled for 90 minutes to Carraroe last Friday to attend a patient with a heart attack.
According to today's Irish Times, Connemara GP, Dr Peter Sloane says, that on the day of the incident, he needed to see an elderly unwell patient elsewhere, but couldn't leave the patient with the heart attack until the ambulance arrived.
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