‘PET Scan, MRI facilities functional at SKIMS’

Srinagar, Sep 09: SKIMS authorities today said that PET SCAN and MRI facilities are functional at the institute.

“The general public is informed that due to a technical snag the PET Scan & MRI facility was halted. Now the technical snags stand rectified and the services stand resumed. The patients can contact the respective departments for further details,” Medical Superintendent SKIMS said in a statement.

“The MRI machine was having problems with the MRI Chiller. MRI Chiller is important as it helps to maintain the cold head of MRI machine which in turn maintains the Helium level which is required to cool and check the magnet pressure.

All this is important for the smooth running of MRI machine. A few days back one of the compressor of MRI chiller and few rellay switches got non-functional resulting in stopping the MRI machine.

Today Siemens Engenier replaced the compressor and relay switches and made MRI machine functional. The Siemens Company had been asking for rates for maintenance contract which had to be negotiated,” the statement said.

The statement said fresh comprehensive maintenance contract for said machine will be issued within two days which will make machine functional for next five years.

“Further more process for procurement of new MRI is going on and would be procured soon. The PETCT machine which was undergoing repairs and maintenance for the last two weeks and was not working has been repaired and started functioning from last week fully .All those patients who have been waiting for their scans are being contacted telephonically by the department as per the serial number,” the statement added.