Heart Disease Screening Call
BROADCAST:

A hospital professor has called for a national screening campaign for cholesterol as part of the battle against heart disease.

Report shows an ambulance racing to a hospital.

Graphics illustrating the causes of heart disease and rates of heart attacks in countries around the world.

To camera George Devlin on cholesterol.

Patient Tommy Donnelly on a cholesterol screening machine at the Mater Hospital, Dublin.

Interview with Professor Timothy Counihan, Mater Hospital, on need for national screening.

Interview with Tommy Donnelly on his high cholesterol.

The reporter is George Devlin.