Doctors in the Windsor area are pressing Ontario’s Ministry of Health for help after the region’s only PET scanner broke down, leaving cancer patients with longer waits and travel elsewhere for important scans. Precision Diagnostic is a privately run clinic approved by the government that receives about $300,000 a year to do scans. He has reapplied for aid at the urging of the health ministry. “It is very frustrating,” said Dr. Kevin Tracey of Precision Diagnostic Imaging, whose aging positron emission tomography (PET) machine went on the fritz a week ago. His recent plea to the government for assistance with emergency repairs was rejected.

Source: thestar June 29, 2016 21:04 UTC