CT Replacement to begin in N.B.
It’s been a long-time coming but North Battleford Union Hospital (BUH) will finally have its new computerized tomography (CT) scanner in place by mid-September and patients will see no interruption in local scanning services during the changeover.
Replacement of the CT scanner will begin on August 8. The removal of the existing machine, renovations to the CT room to accommodate the new scanner plus installation, calibration, testing, inspection and certification of the new equipment is expected to take six weeks to complete.
“We have a mobile unit available that we will bring into the Battlefords Union Hospital,” Cheryl Mitchell, Regional Director of Medical Imaging Services for the Prairie North Health Region, said. “It will be on-site for about six weeks while the replacement work is completed.”
The new CT scanner is to be in operation at the BUH the week of September 18, delivering its first services to patients.