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The province is investing more than $6.5 million to purchase and install replacement diagnostic equipment including an MRI, an ultrasound machine, two CT scanners and other equipment at health facilities around the province. ÒThe investment in replacing older equipment with newer models will ensure hospitals around the province continue to provide quality diagnostic services to their patients,Ó said Health Minister Theresa Oswald. The investments include: more than $2.3 million to purchase and install a replacement magnetic resonance imager (MRI) at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg; more than $1.5 million to purchase and install a replacement CT scanner at the Thompson General Hospital; more than $1.5 million to purchase and install a replacement CT scanner at the Boundary Trails Regional Health Centre in central Manitoba; more than $915,000 for a replacement urology system at the Health Sciences Centre (HSC); more than $300,000 to purchase and install a replacement ultrasound scanner at WinnipegÕs Misericordia Health Centre; and $275,000 for the purchase and installation of a C-arm, used to install temporary pacemakers and to guide the insertion of needles and other medical devices, at Brandon Regional Health Centre. All the new equipment will be installed in these facilities and operational by 2009.
