I'll speak specifically about the cardiovascular imaging. First of all, with the previous shutdowns we became aware that there could potentially be future problems, so we planned for this and we prepared ourselves and our staff for this type of eventuality. With careful planning, this situation has been partly dealt with.
We made a decision to switch all our cardiac scans over to thallium, as well as to utilize the PET scanner for profusion imaging, or blood flow imaging. We made those two changes when we knew we had lost the technetium, or reduced the supply—Dr. Ruddy is right that it's not gone; it's just reduced. That would allow us to enable our sister hospital, the Ottawa Hospital, where most of the cancer imaging is done, to do more bone scans. We have a formulated plan. As well, our technologists come in on Saturday mornings to do some other scans to help with the load, because the timing for the thallium scans is a little bit different from that of the technetium.
These are things we were able to. It was mentioned that the technologists and the staff are being burdened and they are working very hard. This is true, but our primary goal is to make sure the patients get the care they deserve in a timely manner. At least in the cardiac section we've been able to achieve that. We have seen no noticeable change in the wait time for our cardiac patients.