Ontario is looking to nearly double the number of publicly funded MRIs and CT scans offered through private clinics.
Right now there are seven such clinics in the province that provide one or both of the diagnostic imaging services, and Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced Monday that Ontario has launched a call for applications to expand that number.
New licences are expected to be issued in the fall and should give the province the ability to perform 100,000 more of those scans each year.