A £60,000 machine, which helps prevent cholesterol building up in the bloodstream of high-risk patients, is no longer in use because a hospital cannot afford to run it.
Report shows Tommy Donnelly, a high-risk heart patient, having his cholesterol reduced by the machine in February 1989.
The unused machine, which is currently locked in a ward in the Mater Hospital in Dublin.
Interview with Professor Timothy Counihan, Mater Hospital, the patients who need the machine.
Tommy Donnelly with his wife and his two sons, who have also inherited his condition.
Interview with Tommy Donnelly on his condition.
The Mater Hospital building.
The reporter is George Devlin.
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