Letter - Crazy MRI wait situation
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According to the Nanaimo Daily News, B.C. performs 21 MRIs per 100,000 residents vs Alberta’s 41. This year there will be a 20 per cent decrease because of funding cuts. In Nanaimo there is now a nine-month wait.
I guess I was lucky. After waiting almost three months for the specialist appointment I have an MRI scheduled for seven months hence.
If I may say so: “This is crazy.”
The purpose of the exercise is to diagnose a medical condition that may rapidly be getting worse, is it not? What may be effectively treated now may not be next spring. Tell me this is not so.
In the meantime, aside from daily concern about what the future may hold, increasingly depressing physical symptoms have to be tolerated for the better part of a year.
I booked at a private facility who scheduled me for the day after I phoned them.
Do we have a two-tiered health system?
Personal opinion: Much of this situation is attributable to the fact that there are two levels of government involved in funding health services. No one is ultimately accountable. Whatever is wrong is “the other guy’s fault.”
Harold Brochmann,
Salt Spring
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