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An Ambulance Took Almost 2 Hours To Arrive In Kildare

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It was a life -threatening emergency.

It took 1 hour and 57 minutes for an ambulance to arrive at a life-threatening emergency call in Co Kildare.

This is one of 20 life-threatening emergency calls in 6 months, where ambulances took over 90 minutes to arrive.

The longest waiting time was nearly 2 hours and 19 minutes.

The target time for an ambulance to arrive at a life-threatening emergency call, is within 19 minutes.

However, between January and June of this year, the response time was over an hour in 308 cases.

The longest was 2 hours and 19 minutes to an emergency in a rural part of Co Galway.

Eoin Murphy reports:

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