NWT looks at acquiring MRI scanner

NWT looks at acquiring MRI scanner

YELLOWKNIFE, NWT – A feasibility study is under way to have an MRI machine installed at Yellowknife’s Stanton Territorial Hospital, health minister Lesa Semmler says. Without a machine in the territory, many in need of an MRI scan are sent to Alberta where the service is more widely available. In the legislature, Monfwi MLA Jane Weyallon Armstrong asked Semmler how much it costs the territorial government to send patients to Alberta for diagnost…