A HSE report warns of the urgent need to recruit more staff to the National Ambulance Service.
The report indicates a target to respond within 19 minutes to life-threatening cases, would be met less than 40 per cent of the time by 2027.
This man says his 88 year old mother was waiting for an ambulance for a total of 15 hours in Cork, after suffering a fall.
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After waiting 9 hours, he called a local doctor who attended to her.
The doctor put in another call for an ambulance, and it arrived 6 hours later:
The local doctor on call services is called south doc.
We called them and they sent a GP up and she requested am ambulance.
The ambulance still didn't arrive for another six hours.
