The hospital says the machine arrived on June 25 and only required a total of one month to become operational. Clinical applications officially begin on July 29.
London Health Sciences Centre has unveiled a new MRI machine for outpatient and less urgent cases, which it says will help reduce wait times.
The Free.Max is funded operationally by the Ministry of Health and Ontario Health, and costs about half the price of a standard MRI machine. This will be the fifth MRI machine available for patients at the hospital. “The Free.Max has the largest board in Canada, which is great to support our patients who might be a little bit claustrophobic as well,” Trieu says. “It provides a quick solution for us to really ramp up MRI access quickly.”Plant-based milk recall: Class-action lawsuits filed over Listeria outbreak
“We leased it with the operational funding that the government gave, and we’re actually covering technologist costs with the same money,” says Dr. Narinder Paul, department head of medical imaging at LHSC. “I think we’ve got to look at innovative ways of using taxpayers’ money to provide care in a way that isn’t just doing the same thing time and time again.”
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