A tourist waited almost five hours for an ambulance after she suffered a fall on the Cliffs of Moher walking trail.
The woman is understood to have made her own way to the visitor centre at the popular attraction where she was cared for by staff who also called for an ambulance. The incident occurred on Friday of last week, May 27th.
At the time however, it’s understood, there was no ambulance available in the county and the injured woman had to wait until late into the evening before an ambulance could transport her to hospital.
A spokesperson for the National Ambulance Service said: “NAS received a 999 call at 16:31 on Friday 27 May 2022 from the Visitor Centre at the Cliffs of Moher. The call was clinically triaged by the NAS Clinical Hub.
The call was clinically classified as an OMEGA (lowest acuity case) call which are not encompassed by any response times targets. During busy periods when emergency ambulances are responding to life threatening or serious 999 calls or waiting to handover patients at Emergency Departments, such calls may have to wait for a response.”
The National Ambulance Service however did not respond to many of the questions asked in relation to last Friday’s incident and responses to emergency calls in Clare generally.
