GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., is donating a 64-slice CT scanner to a healthcare facility in British Columbia, Canada.
The Lightspeed VCT system will be located in the Whistler Health Care Centre by the end of this year in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The scanner will remain in the community after the games are finished.
The Whistler Health Care Centre is part of Vancouver Coastal Health, which will provide operating funding for the Lightspeed VCT.
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