The provincial government blames the previous Liberal administration’s lack of maintenance for a CT scanner going out of commission at the Health Sciences Centre.

NLHS issued a notification yesterday afternoon stating that the CT scanner is down. As a result, a mobile clinic is being established at the Janeway.

Health Minister Lela Evans does not expect too much of a backlog in seeing patients with the move.

“We’re hoping it’s not going to increase the wait times too much. Like I said, we’ve mobilized the staff to help out over at the Janeway and at St. Clare’s to increase the number of patients they can put through and extend the operational time,” she told reporters.

A mobile scanner is set to open at the end of the month.