The province is hoping to improve surgery wait times.
One time funding of 25 million dollars will be pumped into the health care system.
Some of that money will be used to purchase 4 new MRI’s in the province with one of those coming to Nanaimo.
On the surgery side, the money will be used by health authorities to try to reduce the backlog of patients.
Health authorities completed more than 5,000 additional surgeries in 2015-16 through a one time 25 million dollar cash injection that was earmarked to improve access, particularly for people who had been waiting more than 40 weeks for their surgery.
About 572,000 surgical procedures were performed in B.C. in 2015-16.
