I emphasize that if you want to pursue this, the right people to call as witnesses are the nuclear radiologists and the technicians who were really handling these issues. But a colleague informed me yesterday that the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, if I understood correctly, obtains radioactive molybdenum from a different supplier and had some that it could share as well, and that there was a daily teleconference occurring in British Columbia by the nuclear medicine specialists to ensure that supplies of radioisotopes were apportioned according to the greatest need. For example, a so-called elective cardiac scan for someone suspected of having angina might have been deferred because it's typically not a highly productive scan--it often doesn't answer questions--whereas others that were deemed to be crucial would be pursued.
There are very few nuclear medicine scans that are crucial, and the test of that is that most nuclear medicine facilities are not open at night and never on weekends. We never get an emergency scan in my practice.