Sask turns down $2 million donation for MRI
September 20, 2023
ESTEVAN, Sask. – A Saskatchewan philanthropist says she is “dumbstruck” after the provincial government passed on a $2-million donation that would bring a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine to Estevan, Sask. In March of this year Elaine Walkom (pictured), a businesswoman from Estevan, Sask., wrote to then-provincial health minister Paul Merriman offering to buy the machine and train two technicians to operate it at St. Joseph’s Hospital. The province declined the offer.
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