A 52-year-old Drumshanbo resident had to wait an hour and twenty minutes for an ambulance to arrive after having suffered from a stroke.
Councillor Brendan Barry raised the issue at Monday's Ballinamore MD meeting, calling for the HSE to provide more ambulances to the area.
He says local crews are constantly being pulled away from their base to assist patients in other parts of the country.
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The Carrick-on-Shannon ambulance which had been dispatched during this instance had been on the way from Mullingar.
Ballinamore councillor Brendan Barry hopes the HSE responds promptly to the crisis:
