107.5 KISSFM: Wednesday, 10 June 2009 09:49
Worries that smaller hospitals across Canada will have to stop doing cancer and heart scans by this weekend due to a shortage of medical isotopes, will not be a problem in the Okanagan and BC. Zeno Cescon with Interior Health says all the health regions in BC have agreed to share the existing alotment of isotopes so no scheduled tests are cancelled. He says other alternatives are also being used. We're using other methods like CT and MRI to perform some tests, and we're also switching to different isotopes for certain other procedures. There is a shortage but we've got a system in place where we prioritize patients."Cescon says no patients in Interior Health will have their tests or scans cancelled. Isotopes are in short supply after the world's largest producer, the federal government's Chalk River nuclear reactor in Ontario, shut down for repairs.
Worries that smaller hospitals across Canada will have to stop doing cancer and heart scans by this weekend due to a shortage of medical isotopes, will not be a problem in the Okanagan and BC. Zeno Cescon with Interior Health says all the health regions in BC have agreed to share the existing alotment of isotopes so no scheduled tests are cancelled. He says other alternatives are also being used. We're using other methods like CT and MRI to perform some tests, and we're also switching to different isotopes for certain other procedures. There is a shortage but we've got a system in place where we prioritize patients."Cescon says no patients in Interior Health will have their tests or scans cancelled. Isotopes are in short supply after the world's largest producer, the federal government's Chalk River nuclear reactor in Ontario, shut down for repairs.
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