Residents want MRI added to new Portage la Prairie hospital [Video]

There are 14 MRIs in Manitoba, and now there’s a renewed push to get another one that would go inside the new hospital being built in Portage la Prairie.

The new hospital is still under construction, and adding an MRI into the design now would potentially save taxpayer dollars.

Judith Jeffries has been waiting four months for an MRI to see if she needs surgery on her knee. She’s also been waiting eight months for another one of her brain.

“I’m in the loop, and I could be in the loop for a while,” she said.

It’s also been a month since her husband Dave was told he needed an MRI of his kidney.

“He’s already had kidney cancer once,” Judith said.

“And I sit back and I think, you know, how quickly will it grow the second time and what stages of that?”

The vegetable farmers live just outside Portage la Prairie where a new $455 million …