The Breast Screening Clinic at the Walkerton hospital is going digital.
The Walkerton and District Hospital Foundation unveiled a new digital mammography machine yesterday.
It has been operating since September at the South Bruce Grey Health Centre site.
Foundation Co-ordinator Cheryl Hopkins says the digital machine allows the technician to work with one image instead of having to take several images.
The Walkerton hospital does more than two thousand mammogram’s a year and is an official site for the Ontario Breast Screening program.
Hopkins notes the machine is very important since it serves residents in the Bruce, Grey, Huron and Perth Counties.
The cost of the digital machine is 650 thousand dollars.
The Foundation wants to raise 400 thousand of the total over four years.
But Hopkins notes they have already raised over 130 thousand dollars and she believes they will reach their goal before four years.
Hopkins says they decided to unveil the machine this week as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month
