Lake of the Woods District Hospital says its made great strides in diagnosing
patients with infectious diseases.
The hospital is one of the few in the province that now has molecular genetics
testing equipment.
Dr. Kerry McDonald is the hospital's chief of staff and says they can isolate
certain infectious diseases in a matter of hours, rather than days.
McDonald says in the past a patient could spend up to 72 hours in isolation
before they could determine if they had any infectious diseases.
The new technology allows them to diagnose any problems within two hours.
