5 MRI, 10 CT scan machines for Delhi govt hospitals

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.