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- ONE OF the reasons Dr. Emest Behm came to Terrace i in - 1994 was to work with the-then brand new single slice CT "scanner at Mills Memorial Hospital.

> It was state of the art back then and acted as a draw for the radiologist.

And now that Mills has anew 64-slice CT scanner, which...

-is leap years ahead of the old one in terms of modern medi-' “cal diagnostic equipment, he hopes it will attract other radi- -; ologists to the region. .

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That’s because Behm is now the region’ s only radiolo- Bist putting a strain on the service he provides,

- The region’ S only other radiologist, based in Prince Ru- ‘ pert, left in the spring and the Northern Health Authority m hasn’t been able to fill the. slot so far despite an active re-~

‘ cruiting campaign.

“It’s certainly not going to hurt. It is a recruiting tool,” -- »' Said Behm last week.

There’s an overall shortage of radiologists across Canada

oo" Vand having : an edge, such as a, new scanner, is an advantage, "the added. oe

“The younger. guys want to stay in n the city. It’s easier to ‘practice in a group,” Behm continued.

The new CT scanner is much faster than the old one, “meaning that more © people can be put through ina single

day. : That’ Il - help reduce the month- song waiting period for

_ FromPage At ns - CT scanner welcomed at Mills

The $650, 000 being, raised by the foundation for its share’

of the purchase is the single largest financing drive it has ‘undertaken.

~The foundation’ S largest prior project to this was raising

igo10, 000 to purchase the old scanner..It was installed in late

- 11993 after four years of effort to ‘accumlate’ the money... : ~ Back then, the total project cost was $810,000 with the ‘scanner, itself costing $610,000 thanks to the foundation -

; ‘while «the, $200,000 renovations and installation cost was

“covered by. the health ministry.

“The $1.65: million cost this time ‘included renovations,

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ve training and disposing of the old machine. .

It went toa’ New York firm which specializes i in buying

v .: ?and then selling used medical equipment. ,

There are only about: 10 64-slice scanners made b by vari-

“ous manufacturers i in place around the province, says Donna

“Eliot, Toshiba’s western sales manager: : That list includes one at the private for-profit Canada Di-

7 o ‘agnostic: Centre i in Vancouver, visited by Behm to see how it . “operates, one at-the B.C. Cancer Agency i in Vancouver and

‘one in Kelowna, she said.”

- ‘» Others are in New Westminster, at Vancouver Geneial.

sand i in Victoria, making Terrace the smallest centre in B. C.

- to have a 64-slice scanner. .._. Toshiba employees are headed to Quesnel to install anew

. ‘one there the end of this month and will be installing others

“in Nanaimo and in Victoria, said Elliott. The new scanner going into Quesnel i is a 32-slice model,

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New CT scanner should lure specialists to the northwest.

non- emergency patients when the old one was here.

But the irony, is that the faster service will increase the pressure on Behm because he still needs to read and 2 assess the images.

The Northern Health Authority has installed at Mills and at other of its facilities inthe north a storage, retrieval and . transmission system so that CT and other i images can be sent’ to specialists elsewhere. :

It’s useful for second opinions and for times, such as on the weekends or at nights, When Behm might not be. avail- able foremergencies.

That’s helping out, but there i is still the need to have more “Tadiologists based in the northwest. Local health authority official Rowena Holoien. says it is:

emphasizing the new scanner in its recruitment ads.

“We continue to work on both long and short term plans ‘to address the needs of the northwest communities affected _ by the vacancies,” she said.

Kevin Kennedy of the Dr. R. E. M. Lee Hospital F Founda-

tion, which is raising $650,000 toward the purchase of the ~ new scanner, also says it will help bring specialists to the ‘northwest. . ce - “T know this will help the two internal medicine special-

ists we have here now,” he said. » ’ “And this will solidify Mills as the Place for 1 specialists to be in the northwest.”

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not a 64. And it doesn’t have'a cardiac diagnostic capability

Such as the new one at Mills.

“The one in. Terrace 'is at a higher level because ‘of the

- wonderful foundation you have there,” said Elliot of the fi-.

nancial contribution of the Lee foundation.”

The Quesnel scanner ‘project -cost: is $1.65 million, the same as here in Terrace, and includes not only the equipment, but extensive renovations at G.R. Baker Hospital to’ build a room for the scanner, and for electrical/computer system. upgrades that the unit will need.

All told there are 41 CT scanners, 19 MRI machines and one very specialized PET scanner inBC. °° sf

There is kayaking here

| AN. ARTICLE in the Sept. 13,2006 issue of The’ Terrace,

Standard gave the impression there were no companies of- | fering kayaking trips in Terrace.

‘In fact, Blackfish Sea Kayaking i is finishing. its ninth year offering tours of the north coast based out of Prince Rupert.

It works with the chiefs: of both Metlakatla and’ Lax Kwa’ laams and has agreements with them to paddle on re- serve and . their Traditional Territories. More information i is. available at www.kermode. net/blackfish

Azad. Adventures of Terrace also provides kayaking s ser- . vices, both white water and ocean-based. It has been in business for four years and its website is

www.azadadventures.com.

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