Battlefords Union Hospital welcomes donations for radiothon today
It’s a busy day at the Battlefords Union Hospital, where people are calling in from all over the Battlefords and surrounding area to donate for a great cause.
“The Bigger Picture” radiothon is being held from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. today, May 18 in the hopes of raising $600,000 for the purchase of a new CT scanner for the hospital’s medical imaging department.
Cheryl Mitchell, Director of Medical Imaging said her department can benefit greatly from a new CT scanner and said an updated machine can help seek out the diagnosis to certain medical conditions much more quickly.
“As technology advances, it’s more important to keep up with that. The technology we have is 10 to 12 years old. Ten years in a digital environment is 100 years of anything else,” Mitchell said.