The Emile Mayrisch Hospital (Chem) is reportedly considering opening a medical imaging facility in the GridX shopping and business centre.
Such a move would follow in the footsteps of the Robert Schuman Hospitals, which opened a radiology unit in the Cloche d’Or shopping centre on 1 October.
The GridX complex – developed by the Félix Giorgetti group and opened on 18 September in the Wickrange area of Reckange-sur-Mess – is reportedly part of the hospital’s plans for southern Luxembourg.
“The decision should be made in the next two or three months,” said the hospital group’s director general René Metz in remarks published in the Lëtzebuerger Land newspaper on 31 October. The Chem has been looking for a site for “some time”, he said.
GridX is one of the sites of interest to Chem, which reorganised its radiology services by extending the time slots for MRI appointments from 06:00 to 22:00 at the beginning of 2024. One year on, the hospital is reporting positive results.
On a national scale, due to ever-increasing residential and cross-border demand, Luxembourg is experiencing recurrently long waiting times for MRI appointments.
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With the A4 motorway nearby and the construction of a fast tram line between the Cloche d’Or district and Esch-sur-Alzette over the next decade, with a GridX stop planned, the development could provide an alternative to existing Chem facilities in Esch-sur-Alzette, Dudelange and Niederkorn.
According to the latest national healthcare planning document, the Carte sanitaire published in 2023, Chem has a total of three scanners, three MRI machines, five remote-controlled radiology tables, two scintillation cameras (one with a SPECT-CT system), two vascular radiology tables, two interventional radiology tables and two mammography machines at its three sites.
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The Südspidol hospital complex, currently under construction in Esch-sur-Alzette, will bring together most of Chem’s activities on a single site, including a radiology department with three scanners and three MRIs.
(This article was originally published by Virgule. Translated using an AI tool and edited by Aaron Grunwald.)
