In spite of all the warning from doctors and experts but
obesity is rising whatever the reason. The call of hospitals having to buy new
scanner to cope with obese patients is on the increase. The new CT scanner has almost five times the
X-ray power of normal machines. It has
the power of 240KW as to previous machines of 50KW. It is necessary for doctors
to receive a good image.
The maximum weight it can cope with had increased from 160kg
to 300kg. The board has changed from 70cm to 80cm. The machine has also to improve its
lightening speed because obese patients can not hold their
breath as long as other patients. The
cost of one of this new machine is £1million each.
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Russell Lodge, business manger at Siemens Healthcare
providing these machines to the NHS said: “The number of bariatric (obese) patients
referred for CT scans has more than doubled in 125 years and is predicted to go
on rising.”
Statistics show that over 64 per cent of adults in England
are overweight. Apparently the North East has the highest admission to
hospitals for obesity. One reason for the highest obesity located in the
North-East is high unemployment which is purely the fault of this Tory-led Coalition
and Margaret Thatcher who closed down mines and shipbuilding industry. Naturally unemployed people sit about more and
eat more. The treatment for over weight problems costs
the NHS £5.1billions a year. If this money would have been invested into
industry in the North East is would have produced taxes instead of unemployment
benefits.
What kind of Chancellor is
George Osborn who cost the economy £240billion with his stupid austerity.
Tam Fry, National Obesity Forum, said: “The rapidly
expanding size of CT scanners is shocking but sadly, not surprising. As a
society, we have allowed people to get fatter and fatter. This is not about
blaming individual patients, because every one’s circumstances are different. But
it is absolutely tragic that as a nation we are becoming so fat we have to
redesign medical equipment.”
Due to the increase obese patients the hospitals also had
widen the corridors and larger doors fitted.
Generally CT scans use X-rays and computer to produce a
detailed image of your body. The images called tomograms are more detailed. The
produced images of the inside of your body are used to diagnose cancer, bone
conditions, heart conditions and injuries to organs.
The first commercial CT scanner was invented by Sir Godfrey Woodsfield
in London. It produced the first brain
scan in the world in October 1971.
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