The Accident and Compensation Corporation (A.C.C) has put its hand up to assist the Ministry of Health to fund the $1.5million CT scan for the Moto’otua hospital.
In Parliament, the Minister of Health, Tuitama Dr. Talalelei Tuitama, said the partnership with A.C.C has been approved by Cabinet.
Tuitama was responding to a question from M.P., Motuopua’a Dr. Aisoli Va’ai, about when the CT scan is likely to arrive.
“The Ministry has been searching for a CT scan from its health donors but its search hasn’t been successful,” said Tuitama.
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“The machine is not cheap, its one that costs about a million".
“A.C.C. has agreed to fund the machine and a memorandum of Understanding was signed in July to allow money from A.C.C to fund the CT-scan".
At this stage, the Minister said tenders have been invited for bringing the machine to Samoa. Once that is decided, it will only be a matter of months before the Scan arrives.
“The company will be given 90 days to bring the CT scan".
According to Tuitama, the CT-scan machine should arrive in January 2015, and ready for use.
He said a more advanced machine is needed to be installed and utilised at the newly constructed hospital at Moto’otua.
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