The CT scan machine at BYL Nair Hospital has been out of order for more than a week while that of KEM Hospital has been partially functional for about two weeks, allowing doctors to only carry out brain scans.

While Nair hospital has tied up with NM Medical, a private facility, so outpatients can undergo the imaging procedure there until its machine is repaired, no such arrangement is in place for KEM hospital’s outpatients, who have no choice but to opt for private diagnostic centres.