Although all authorisations for the project are in, the personnel for the new centre must still undergo training.
Mayor Leon Gloden, who also serves as an MP for the Christian Social People's Party (CSV), is proud that the project is being undertaken in his own town of Grevenmacher. The apparatuses can now be installed and tested, and as soon as staff have been trained, the new centre will open its doors.
MP Tess Burton from the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP), who also serves as a council member in Grevenmacher, noted that there are still a number of questions surrounding the project. For instance, the National Health Fund (CNS) nearly covers the entire costs of a scan completed in a hospital, but not the scans in Grevenmacher.
Burton concluded: "It is important to regulate the legal frame of this new centre so that we avoid creating a two-class society, in which only some can afford consultation. This has always been important for my party and we can therefore only support this project if the offer will be the same for everyone."
Mayor Gloden acknowledged that this authorisation is in fact still missing, but emphasised that the project has been financed completely by an "Economic Interest Group", meaning that it was not government-funded.
The politician thus questioned the scepticism from MPs Lorsché and Hansen from The Greens, who recently filed a parliamentary enquiry about the new MRI scanner: "First, their question is a slap in the face for my Green alderman, who helped carry out the project and fully supports it. Second, I find that their tone reveals that the Greens don't think that people living in the east of Luxembourg deserve adequate medical support."
MP Carole Hartmann from the Democratic Party has meanwhile underlined that the project means good news for the people living in her eastern district, but also explained that local officials are responsible for ensuring that everyone will have equal access to the new radiology centre.
