Clare health campaigners have described as extremely worrying, recent figures which reveal that less than a third of ambulances arrive at the scene of an life threatening emergency within 8 minutes.
The statistics show just 29 percent of ambulances in the West made the eight minute target last year to arrive at the scene for patients with heart or breathing problems.
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While every region in the country had a poor rate- the West which includes Clare, Galway and Limerick had the worst record.
The HSE says the it has no record of any patient being adversly affected by a late arrival, but west Clare Councillor Christy Curtin says the issue is an ongoing concern for many
He is calling for an air ambulance service to be introduced here.
