Japan to provide Ukraine's hospitals with modern equipment worth $30 million

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Health Ministry: Japan to provide Ukraine's hospitals with modern equipment worth $30 million
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Cool, so like 2 MRI machines?

Everything helps though, pardon my cinicism.

Turns out those are MRI machines, but they're at their regular price of 2mil per piece. 15 MRI machines is a lot. There are many hospitals even in the developed countries that can afford exactly one. And many that don't have one at all.

This is a huge deal. I remember watching early on in the war and one neurosurgeon was using a single CT scanner well beyond its duty cycle and knew once it went down they'd be screwed. MRIs by contrast (heh) are a massive step up.

The neurosurgical microscopes can do a lot of good there. Those modern things even allow remove viewing, experts across the globe can assist.