New Ultrasound Machine Unveiled In La Ronge

New Ultrasound Machine Unveiled In La Ronge

Friday, January 15, 2010 at 14:08

A newly-installed piece of ultrasound equipment will soon be seeing heavy use at the La Ronge Health Centre.

Dr. David Stoll, a La Ronge physician and senior medical officer for the Mamawetan Churchill River Health Region, says over 1,000 diagnostic ultrasounds are done annually in the region.

The new equipment was unveiled yesterday afternoon for a crowd of health region staff and board members, donors and organizers of last summer’s “Ultrasoundoff” radio-thon, which raised much of the machine’s $175,000 price tag.

Stoll says this machine, which has been operational since Dec. 14, replaces equipment in use for nearly 10 years.

Meanwhile, health region board chair Joe Hordyski is proud both of the community’s fundraising efforts — including the role played by the La Ronge Elks Club in organizing the radio-thon — and of the ways in which residents will benefit from the new equipment.

Hordyski says it was proving tough for the health region to raise the money on their own, and having community groups take the project on was “just incredible.”