11 Mr. E. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Health if he will have arrangements made to investigate the appointment system for people in need of an MRI scan at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, in view of the fact that private patients are receiving early appointments while public patients have to wait many weeks; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this MRI scanning machine was purchased by the State solely for use by public patients and that it is one of only four such machines in the country, three of which are located at private hospitals and therefore used solely by private patients and that the hospitals referring patients for a scan at Beaumont are being charged for the scan; and if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that there is a young public patient in the Cork area who has been hospitalised for several weeks and had been informed that he would have to wait until late January 1994, for a scan despite being an emergency case.

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11 Mr. E. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Health if he will have arrangements made to investigate the appointment system for people in need of an MRI scan at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, in view of the fact that private patients are receiving early appointments while public patients have to wait many weeks; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this MRI scanning machine was purchased by the State solely for use by public patients and that it is one of only four such machines in the country, three of which are located at private hospitals and therefore used solely by private patients and that the hospitals referring patients for a scan at Beaumont are being charged for the scan; and if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that there is a young public patient in the Cork area who has been hospitalised for several weeks and had been informed that he would have to wait until late January 1994, for a scan despite being an emergency case.

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