Machines running around the clock produced 233,000 exams over the past year
B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix says nearly 44,000 more specialized diagnostic exams have been completed because of the B.C. Surgical and Diagnostic Imaging Strategy.Almost 44,000 more specialized diagnostic exams have been completed across British Columbia in the first year of a new health care strategy and Health Minister Adrian Dix says that amounts to an “extraordinary achievement.”
When compared with the year before, Dix says their strategy “dramatically exceeded” the initial target of 37,000 scans.MRI scans are vital to the diagnosis of soft tissue damage such as brain tumours, strokes or dementia and past wait times have extended a year or more. Dix says two private MRI outpatient clinics were purchased by Fraser Health as part of the strategy and the model could be applied to efforts to cut other health care wait times.
“I am obviously delighted with that. It is what people expect of us, to deliver care and to use the things that we have already paid for to their maximum in order to provide service for people,” Dix told a news conference in Victoria.
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