5 MRI, 10 CT scan machines for Delhi govt hospitals

July 26, 2016 12:00 am | Updated 05:35 am IST - NEW DELHI:

City doctors have welcomed the Delhi Health Department’s initiative to procure five MRI and 10 CT scan machines.

Responding to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s tweet, “Tenders done for 5 MRI n 10 CT Scan. They’ll come in 4 mnths. It’ll take smetime to correct decades of misgovernance [sic],” doctors said the move would greatly improve the services being offered to poor patients.

According to a senior Delhi government official, the new machines will be installed at 10 hospitals under the public-private partnership model.

There are 34 government hospitals in Delhi, but only one — Lok Nayak Hospital — has an MRI machine, forcing patients seeking MRI scans to wait for prolonged periods, said sources in the Delhi government.

An MRI scan, that costs up to Rs.5,000 at a private facility, is done for free at government hospitals.

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