NDP Health critic France Gélinas wants to know why a PET scanner is still not installed at Health Sciences North in Sudbury.
Gelinas says it was 10 years ago today that she wrote her first letter to the minister of health demanding equity of access to PET scanning for the people of Northeastern Ontario.
A major fundraising effort by the late Sam Bruno’s family and other advocates helped raise the $3.5-million needed, but other communities haven’t had to do that.
Gelinas was reacting to an announcement from Queen’s Park last week that the province will fund a new PET/CT scanner in southern Ontario promising it would be operational in just months.
The Moose is waiting for a response from the health ministry.
