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THE NEW air ambulance service jointly run by the HSE and the Irish Air Corps has completed its first call-out.
The Emergency Aeromedical Service was called into action yesterday to treat a woman who had been injured in a farm accident.
The helicopter, which is based at Custume Barracks in Athlone, reached its destination at Castleplunkett, Co Roscommon, 13 minutes after being requested by a medical team treating her at the location.
The patient, aged 26, was treated on board the helicopter while she was being flown to Galway University Hospital, a journey which took 11 minutes.
The programme is originally running on a 12-month basis in order to ascertain if Ireland requires a permanent air ambulance service. Yesterday, Monday, was its first day in operation.
Health minister Dr James Reilly said the pilot programme would allow the HSE to determine exactly the extent and type of airborne medical support that would be required on a longer-term basis.
Dr Cathal O’Donnell, the medical director of the HSE’s National Ambulance Service, paid tribute to the hard work of his unit and the Air Corps to get the service up and running, and said he was pleased that the patient was able to benefit from the rapid transport.
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And dump its financial crap on the taxpayer. But oh no we couldnt have mortgage write downs for regular home owners. The cost of this alone would probably give back financial control to thousands of people who made much less investment error than the so called professionals.
Exactly ! How much will this buy out cost us this time ?
Hopefully they now reduce their SVR by 1.5-2% so that I can spend some of my hard earned cash on myself and family
Hopefully the PTSB will now lower their disgraceful SVR to the same amount as the other state owned bank AIB.. this bank has got some amount of help from the government its the least they could do for us…
It’s a nice thought, but in reality PTSB don’t give a flying f€ck about the mortgage customers being screwed on their SVR and neither do the government.
I’d love to be proven wrong on this but I won’t be holding my breath and I say that as one of those customers.
So will the Government do the same for me? Take my debts, leave me with my assets and money and I can live happy ever after?
How worst off could we be if we just left these banks which are no different than any business, go under?
Move the trackers to IBRC or the “formerly known as Anglo” bank .. The same bank FG said they’d disband if we voted them in. Will they reduce the SVR now as it was kept high to pay for the costly trackers. Will it be trackers which are 0.5% -1% above ECB rate and still performing or just those in arrears? Either way the taxpayer is straddled with the burden while the bank can massage its books to look profitable.
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