Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital has unveiled the new state-of-the-art Computed Tomography scanner now up and running in the hospital’s Diagnostic Imaging Department.
The scanner is the result of years of community fundraising and replaces its 16-year-old predecessor.
The new machine uses less radiation to create clearer images of patients and, according to Dr. Noah Wortsman, Chief of Radiology at Soldiers’, it will save lives.
The new scanner, to be named in honour of the hospital’s volunteers, who helped spearhead its fundraising, brings Soldiers’ one step closer to having a more robust diagnostic imaging suite.
The final step is a new Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine. The hospital’s current machine is more than 14 years old and was only built to be used for 10-12 years.