The Welsh Government’s Health Secretary has opened a first-of-its-kind MRI scanner at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr.
Vaughan Gething, Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Sport, opened the hospital’s Peripheral MRI Scanner in Ystrad Mynach on Thursday February 16.
The machine allows patients to position limbs for scanning, rather than inserting the whole body, providing a more positive experience for claustrophobic patients.
The scanner was funded by the Welsh Government, and is the first of its type in South Wales. Over 450 patients have been examined by the scanner since it arrived at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr in November last year.
Angela Mutlow, from Aneurin Bevan Community Health Council, said: “We’re absolutely delighted from a patient perspective, it’s going to make a huge difference and free up time in the original MRI scanner for serious cases.”
We are still yet to see the A&E at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr, which Welsh Labour promised we would have when the Caerphilly Miners and its A&E was announced to close. We saw that after bragging about the new hospital on their Labour 2010 General Election Leaflets in Caerphilly and 2011 for the Welsh Assembly Election that weeks after the 2011 election the truth came out that we would lose our A&E in Caerphilly. We will never forget that betrayal, what Labour say and what they do are two different things.
I know from experience that whoever is reading the scans needs re-training. Two CT scans of my head contradicted each other. The MRI scan of my head was the same. You haven’t got enough nursin staff in the hospital either.
Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr is like a large clearing centre for major hospitals like The Royal Gwent Newport.
If you have anything wrong other then something very minor ( ie: need a sticking plaster or painkillers ) you are better off going straight to the major hospital in the first place !
You can’t blame the nursing staff for the system – blame the elected members who betrayed you