X-ray unit purchased 2 years ago is abandoned in Brazilian hospital
X-ray device out of use: harm to the population While waiting lists for examinations increase every day in São Paulo, two large hospitals are keeping expensive CT scanners and X-ray stored, without use. At Children's Hospital Darcy Vargas, a high-tech X-ray equipment is stored in the hospital for almost two years, without even having been withdrawn of the box. The machine valued at BRL 1 million is exposed to temperature changes and technological depreciation. Without the possibility to realize an examination at her daughter, who had just operate the column, the unemployed press operator Cassiano Jose Pantaleon had to spend out of pocket to realize the examination in private hospitals. "If I hadn't the $75, my daughter couldn't to do the X-ray?" He says. In the Southern Regional Hospital, in São Paulo (SP), one scanner valued at BRL 1.5 million is boxed for three months. The tomography device is used in the diagnosis of neurological, cardiac di...