An MRI machine that was originally scheduled to be in Dauphin has some residents asking questions.
The City has been eagerly awaiting the machine which the previous NDP administration had promised to install at the Dauphin Regional Health Centre.
According to the President of the Dauphin Health Foundation Douglas Deans, the current provincial government has been contacted.
"Initially there were so many stories going around Dauphin that we didn't know what was or wasn't happening, so on behalf of the hospital foundation which I chair we wrote a letter to the Minister of Health about six weeks ago [...] we still haven't gotten a response other than they've acknowledged my letter but they haven't specifically don't us what the delay is about which is what we're trying to figure out."
Dauphin Mayor Eric Irwin also has questions about the pending MRI.
"When you drive by the hospital you can see on the south side there's an orange tarp there in the hole in the wall where the machine was to go in [...] we were hopeful that it would get up up and running about now and then we found out that the machine is spot and paid for sitting in Germany and the province is debating weather to bring it to Dauphin, we find that pretty concerning."
Construction of the MRI suite at the facility was roughly $3.7 million dollars.
