Kincardine deserves the best, most-accurate CT scanner, say readers

To the Editor:
RE: CT scanner controversy

Perhaps the decision-makers could determine which CT scanner is best for the patients, when comparing the Edge Plus to the Drive, for the Kincardine hospital.

I do not want another midnight run in an ambulance, during an ice storm, to Walkerton and back for a CT scan.
 
The best, most-accurate CT scanner should be the No. 1 choice for patients in a growing, rural community. 

M. Clark
Kincardine 
 

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To the Editor:

It appears the new CT scanner issue (for the Kincardine hospital) became a money issue for the South Bruce Grey Health Centre board, which it shouldn’t be in this case. Take your blinders off.

It’s a fact that CEOs tend to cut budgets and make a case that can look favourable to their boards but usually not to the community itself.

This decision was to buy a cheaper scanner and use the balance of money somewhere else. This is not what the community, council and local doctors want.

This reshuffling of donations, etc., is definitely diminishing community spirit for future fund-raising campaigns.

The majority want to follow a comment from Duncan Hawthorne (former president and CEO of Bruce Power): “This is about people and not the bottom line.” 

Disgusted
Barry Holt
Quad-bypass survivor
Kincardine