Patients suffer due to ailing CT Scanners

Asela Kuruluwansa

Two CT Scanners at the Kandy General Hospital and Sirimavo Bandaranaike Children’s Hospital in Peradeniya have not been working for the past several weeks.

The patients who need to get CT Scans done to determine their medical condition are extremely inconvenienced and have been made to wait in a long queue as a result.

In addition to the patients in these two hospitals, patients from Ratnapura, Anuradhapura, Kurunegala, Baddulla get referred here for CT Scans.

Emergency patients who need urgent medical treatment are being sent to Colombo, some hundred miles away, just to get a CT Scan, Kandy General Hospital Dr. Gamini Samarasinghe said.

Patients alleged that they have to pay large sums of money to private hospitals and medical laboratories to get a CT Scan, in an emergency situation.

Sirimavo Bandaranaike Children’s Hospital Director Y. Anwar said, she is taking action to restore two CT scan machines in her hospital within a couple of days.

Meanwhile, Kandy General Hospital Director said their MRI scanner was also disfunctioning for the past few months. The agents have been informed to repair the machine.