This device will facilitate the work of doctors who will no longer have to travel from Tahiti to diagnose their patients. And vice versa. Progress comes at a cost: around 90 million cfp.
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Posted on April 16, 2021 at 9:58 am
After a mammography machine and an x-ray machine last year, the latest acquisition from the imaging department of Nuku Hiva hospital is a scanner.
The cost of this device and its technical environment amounts to more than 60 million CFP to which must be added the 30 million installation work and in particular the sealing of the scanner room in order to prevent the radiation from passing through the walls.
No need to go to Tahiti anymore
Installed in the former patient reception area, this new latest-generation machine will allow the populations of the Marquesas Islands to perform imaging procedures more easily and quickly.
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On the other hand, the Marquesan hospital does not currently have a radiologist. So it is the radio operator from Nuku Hiva who will be in charge of the operations. After training, Khadija explains that“We will be able to do cerebral, thoracic, abdominal, pelvic or bone scans. These scans will be sent to the Uturoa hospital in Raiatea where the radiologists will interpret them and send the diagnoses.”
Save time and money. Indeed, medical evacuations to Tahiti generate costs for families as well as separation / distance from home which can be painful. So the acquisition of this new scanner represents a relief for the local population.
A government delegation, made up of the President of the Country Edouard Fritch and Minister Jacques Reynald, will travel to the Marquesas for the inauguration of the scanner scheduled for 3:00 pm this afternoon.
Listen to Abi Tematahotoa’s report:
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