Liberal cabinet minister Gerry Byrne speaks at a rally for a new PET scanner in Corner Brook earlier this month. And yet the period we are now in, leading up to the Feb. 13 election, the tone is completely different. A PET projectThe tone on the campaign trail has been pretty distanced from the sober realities waiting for whichever party wins the election. Byrne noted in that interview that the west coast currently only sends two patients a week to St. John's, where the province's only PET scanner is. To run a PET scanner, you not only need particularly skilled staff, but also isotopes.

Source: CBC News January 23, 2021 09:30 UTC