MUHC Endoscopy Room at Montreal General Hospital Sits Empty

endoscopy-room-empty-mgh-muhc MUHC Endoscopy Room at Montreal General Hospital Sits Empty
An endoscopy room at the Montreal General hospital sits unused. The MUHC says it doesn’t have the budget to operate it. (Sebastien Gaudet/CBC)

State-of-the-art room idle since April 2015 due to lack of funding, says MUHC’s head of gastroenterology

A state-of-the-art endoscopy room at the Montreal General Hospital has been sitting idle since 2015 because the hospital can’t afford to staff it.
The room, built in 2009, can handle an average of 14 procedures a day and could do 3,000 more colonoscopies and gastroscopies a year.
That would go a long way to alleviate agonizingly long wait times for the procedures, for patients worried about serious conditions like Crohn’s disease, colitis and colon cancer.
Doctors who perform the procedures, whether at their private clinics or in public hospitals, agree on what must be done to fix the problem: Fund the public system adequately.
Source: CBC