[jcims]

>However, MRI accessibility is low and extremely inhomogeneous around the world. According to the 2020 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) statistics, there are approximately 65,000 installations of MRI scanners worldwide (~7 per million inhabitants)

Given that my little podunk hospital in the midwest seems to have roughly 5x the worldwide average number of MRI machines, totally agree.

[lostlogin]

MRI is also a massive revenue generator. That's a key reason they buy them.