Surgical and Diagnostic Imaging Strategy includes a provision to operate magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, machines around the clock, with more than 233,000 exams done in the first year of the initiative. 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. Surgical and Diagnostic Imaging Strategy in Victoria, May 2, 2019. Northern Health MRI scans jump by 86%At the start of this year, 10 of B.C.

Source: CBC News May 02, 2019 20:59 UTC