By Charles Takyi-Boadu Posted: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The nation’s premier Hospital, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has got a replacement for its stabiliser, which broke down barely a year ago at the MRI/CT scan centre.
The newly acquired 422kva stabiliser which was purchased alongside two other automatic voltage regulators is estimated to have cost the Hospital GH ¢112, 000 (¢1.2billion old cedis).
It would power the Hospital’s Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and the Computed Tomography scan machine.
The stabilisers were supplied by Ansa systems, authorised local distributors of Watford Control.
The MRI/CT scan machine was commissioned in the year 2006 at a cost of ¢27.5 billion (GH ¢2.7million).
The machine, however, broke down in May 2007 due to power instability.
The Hospital therefore made arrangements to have voltage regulators installed to ensure stable power supply.
The stabiliser was outdoored by the Hospital’s new Chief Administrator, Professor Nii Otu Nartey and supported by the Director of Medical Affairs, Dr Anang, Director of Administration, Chris Nartey and the Acting Head of the MRI/CT scan centre, Kwaku Hewlett.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging primarily used in Radiology to visualize the structure and function of the body.
It provides detailed images of the body in any plane. MRI provides much greater contrast between the different soft tissues of the body than does Computed Tomography (CT), making it especially useful in neurological (brain), musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and oncological (cancer) imaging.
Unlike CT, it uses no ionising radiation, but uses a powerful magnetic field to align the nuclear magnetisation of (usually) hydrogen atoms in water in the body.
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