just imagine one time MRI cost 600 plus
in govt hospital
if just a few patient go for MRI, 600 x 5 = 3000 per day
one month = ?
Seriously this MRI Machine cost how much?
10 million ar?
Yah!
Cost is from US$1 million to US$2.5 million with installation
cost at around $500,000.
But do we know the average MRI scans performed a year in a
hospital?
There are around 12,000 scans performed in Hartford Hospital,
they have 2 MRI machines, so one machine handles 6,000 scans a
year. But all these information regarding Singapore's hospital
statistics is a national secret, they don't reveal, else everybody
will know that they are not subsidizing but making a hefty profit.
6,000 scans x $700 (say average cost of a scan) =
$4,200,000
$4.2 million dollars for a year, 2 years of operation should
rake in more than $8.2 million dollars, which more than covers the
machine's cost at $3 million. Unless the radiologist is making
million dollar salaries like our Ministers.
The service life of these machines stated in the report is 8 to
14 years.
http://www.ct.gov/ohca/lib/ohca/condecisions/03-30015dec.pdf