A part to repair a "highly complex" diagnostic machine is expected to arrive at Dunedin Hospital today — 12 days after it broke — requiring some patients to be sent for scans in Timaru. Southern DHB specialist services executive director Patrick Ng said the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner at Dunedin Hospital experienced a serious fault on August 17. The scanner was "highly complex and dangerous", due to the strength of the magnetic fields it generated, Mr Ng said. He expected the replacement part to arrive today and the MRI to be fixed on Monday. If the MRI service at Dunedin Hospital resumed when expected, about 130 elective patients would have been affected by the outage, he said.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 28, 2020 16:41 UTC