B.C. government to spend $11M for thousands more diagnostic scans by 2019

SURREY, B.C. – British Columbia is increasing the number of MRI exams that will be done across the province.

Health Minister Adrian Dix says 37,000 more MRIs will be done by this time next year in the public health-care system.

The province says 188,000 of the exams which use magnets and radio waves to make a detailed picture of specific parts of the body are slated to be performed this year at hospitals and clinics in the public system.

Dix says $11 million is being made available to add resources and capacity, allowing for the completion of 225,000 MRIs in 2018-19.