There is still some work to be done to get the room ready at the Dauphin Hospital before the MRI comes.
Petr Kresta, Shared Health Manitoba’s Chief Operating Officer, says the machine is currently being built.
“So the manufacturer of the MRI is one of the long lead items, in terms that it’s manufactured in Germany. They have a production schedule, so they are going to be working on manufacturing the MRI. It takes about 12 to 16 weeks to manufacture that unit and to ship it into a ready site, so a site that’s fully prepared to receive the MRI, to have power applied, air conditioning and so forth. So all of that, the manufacturing work, the remaining site work as well as purchasing some very specific MRI safe small equipment, like stretchers, wheelchairs and those kinds of things, all of that is going to culminate in the site being ready towards the end of October or early beginning of November 2018.”
The machine will be transported on a flatbed transport trailer. Getting the machine into the room requires cutting into the exterior wall and being lowered into the building by a crane and other equipment.
